Thu 11th February 2016
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O CEO do ICANN que veio da Suécia - Steve Crocker, Chairman da ICANN, anunciou que, a partir de Maio de 2016, a organização terá como novo CEO o sueco Göran Marby, que irá substituir Fadi Chehadé no cargo no final desde 2012. O processo de escolha de um novo Chairman para a ICANN tinha-se iniciado em Junho de 2015, por decisão do Conselho de Diretores, através da criação de uma comissão de seleção liderada por George Sadowsky. Foram recebidas candidaturas, feita uma escolha dos melhores candidatos e conduzidas entrevistas ... read more ...
 
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Carman's Fine Foods is a retreat domain name hijacker - Australian company nailed for abusing cybersquatting dispute policy proceedings. An Australian seller of cereals and granola has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a .au Dispute Resolution Policy dispute. Carman’s Fine Foods went after the owner of Carmans.com.au, whose name is Ross Wayne Carman. Mr. Carmen used the domain name for one of his businesses. The complainant made some silly arguments, including: The Respondent’s surname is distinct from his former business ... read more ...
 
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Two engaging GoDaddy obvious applications - Applications describe system for recommending different domain names for a website, and making it easy to transition. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two interesting patent applications from GoDaddy related to search engine optimization and localization. Applications number 14/453415 and 14/453418 (pdf) are for “Optimized domain names and websites based on incoming traffic” and “Search engine optimization of domain names and websites”. Both describe essentially the same ... read more ...
 
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Not Quite What You're Thinking: Tesila.com (Expired Domain Report) - Here are expired domain names that sold within the past week. Here’s something you’re going to see more and more as brands contend with the vagaries of foreign pronunciation and transliteration: Tesila.com ($14.0k). As you must have guessed, that price was based on an electric car company. But it’s not a typo. In Romania, there is a town called Teșila – evidently too small to appear in the list of cities with 2000+ residents. Small size notwithstanding, you can book a luxury ski hotel ... read more ...
 
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TLD Operators Should Not Police Content, Says EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a letter today stating "companies and organizations that run the Internet's domain name system shouldn't be in the business of policing the contents of websites, or enforcing laws that can impinge on free speech." The statement was released in light Donuts, the largest operator of new domain name extensions, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) jointly announcing an agreement yesterday to disable or suspend domain names of copyright-infringing ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2016
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MarkMonitor Takes a Look at Progress on New gTLD Program in Latest Report - The MarkMonitor New gTLD Quarterly Report offers unique insight into the New gTLD Program. Click to DownloadMarkMonitor has just released its New gTLD Quarterly Report providing a unique insight into the New gTLD (NgTLD) Program. The report includes detailed information on .Brand registration and marketing activity, current trends and news relevant to businesses and brand owners. Some highlights include: • Internet identifier NgTLDs are popular among squatters, with some TLDs experiencing ... read more ...
 
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Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows adult 8.2% - Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows (TCX) was the top performer on the day, after announcing a $40 million stock buyback the stock closed up 8.2%. Verisign (VRSN) was up over 1% today, earnings are out tomorrow. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical and current stock price performance data is not necessarily indicative of future performance. The writer of this article has no ... read more ...
 
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.Music domain name applicant fails in village bid - A second applicant fails to get community status for .music top level domain name. DotMusic Limited, an applicant for the .music top level domain name, has failed to pass its Community Priority Evaluation. Had it passed, the group would have automatically been awarded .music. Now an auction will be held to determine who gets to operate the domain name. The applicant scored 10 out of 16 points (pdf) on its application. 14 are necessary to get community status. It scored 0 out of 4 on “community ... read more ...
 
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Inside MPAA’s Piracy Deal With the Donuts Domain Registry - Domain name registry Donuts describes itself as “the largest operator of new domain name extensions” and it certainly has some interesting ones under its belt. In addition to future classics such as .EMAIL, .COMPANY and .GURU, Donuts also has more light-hearted options available including .FAIL and .WTF. However, with a current registration volume that has just surpassed 900 domains, the gTLD of most interest to Hollywood (except .TAX, perhaps) is .MOVIE. With this in mind it will come as no ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock BuyBack Program & Is Up Over 8% To $20 A Share - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday “that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market.” “The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or before February 9, 2017. ” “The Company’s previous buyback program, which commenced February 16, 2015 and was scheduled to end on or before February 15, 2016, has ... read more ...
 
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SalesForce Buys The Domain Quotable.com Through BrandBucket.com - Salesforce has just bought the domain name Quotable.com through BrandBucket.com According to DomainTools.com the owner of the domain name was Baroda Ventures LLC of Beverly Hills, who seemed to own the domain for many years. The live whois records changed yesterday to reflect that SalesForce.com bought the domain name which is now registered through brand protection company and domain name registrar MarkMonitor.com. The domain Quotable.com is already being forwarded to SalesForce.com. It seems the ... read more ...
 
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Feel The Bern? The Domain FeelTheBern.com Is For Sale; We Chat With The Owner - Yesterday Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic primary of the 2016 election beating Hillary Clinton by over 20%. What has become the rally phrase for Mr. Sanders supporters is “Feel the Bern”. I reached out to the owner of the domain name FeelTheBern.com last night who confirmed the domain name was for sale, which was just registered in February of 2015. So it’s either Sanders or Hillary Clinton who uses the domain name HillaryClinton.com for her website, or one ... read more ...
 
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Verisign files opening brief in interest opposite .XYZ - David v. Goliath battle continues in appeals court. Verisign has filed its opening brief (pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in its dispute with new top level domain name company XYZ. In October 2015, a federal district judge dismissed Verisign’s lawsuit against the operator of the .xyz domain name. Verisign subsequently appealed. Verisign argues that the district judge misapplied the standards for summary judgment and misinterpreted statements of fact. At the heart of Verisign’s ... read more ...
 
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FundMe.com and GoFundMe.com in heading spat - Two similarly-named companies are on a collision course. Not to be confused with GoFundMe.The owner of FundMe.com has filed a lawsuit against personal fundraising site GoFundMe.com over the similarity of their names and trademarks, and a bit of nuance around types of crowfunding. FundMe.com has a trademark related to business funding. GoFundMe is a site for personal or charitable crowdfnding. Earlier this year, legal counsel for GoFundMe sent a cease desist letter to FundMe.com regarding FundMe.com ... read more ...
 
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Big companies recently purebred these domain names - Here are some interesting domain name registrations undertaken by large companies in recent days. Companies made a bunch of hand registrations and domain acquisitions the past couple days. Although none of them rise to the level of writing a dedicated article about them, I think it’s worth combining them into a single article… I don’t know what to make of the registration of MakeAmericaGreatAgainApp.com. It currently uses Mark Monitor’s whois privacy service, but Donald Trump‘s campaign ... read more ...
 
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Mobile phone use continues to lift Tucows - Domain names are the base, but mobile phone service contributes the most gross margin. Tucows, one of the largest domain name registrars, released fourth quarter and full year financial results yesterday. Fourth quarter revenue hit $45 million, with annual revenue of $173 million, up 17% from the prior year. While the company’s domain name business remains the biggest component of its revenue, all of the growth is coming from its Ting mobile phone service. And, for the first time, gross margin ... read more ...
 
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L’ICANN a nommé son prochain PDG, le suédois Göran Marby - 10/02/2016 11h20, par PCInpact.com L'ICANN a trouvé son futur PDG, Göran Marby, directeur général de l'ARCEP suédoise. Il entrera en fonction en mai et succèdera à l'Américain Fadi Chehade, qui a initié la sortie de l'organisation du contrôle américain. Un long chemin reste tout de même à parcourir, notamment pour concilier la volonté de la direction de l'ICANN à celle de sa communauté.Lire la suite ... read more ...
 
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China dominates new .com registration trends - Chinese names are a big hit in .com. Verisign has released its monthly trending keywords report, and words tied to China dominated last month. The list considers which keywords made the biggest jump in registrations from one month to the next. Here are the top ten for last month: 1. Jin 2. Fang 3. Yun 4. Bao 5. Rong 6. Smith 7. Lock 8. Che 9. Feng 10. Yin My grasp of Chinese is limited, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that people registered a lot of personal names. As for “Smith” ... read more ...
 
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Le Suédois Göran Marby sera le nouveau CEO de l’Icann - Fadi Chehadé, qui dirige l'Icann depuis 2012, avait annoncé en mai 2015 déjà qu'il renonçait à son poste de CEO de l'organisation multipartite. C'est Akram Atallah, l'homme qui dirige actuellement la division des noms de domaine mondiale au sein de l'Icann, qui assumera ce rôle honorifique durant la période de transition. Göran Marby prendra les rênes de l'Icann à un moment où l'organisation va se muer en un organe non-gouvernemental ... read more ...
 
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Icann, il prossimo presidente viene dall’Europa - Da maggio, Ceo e presidente sarà lo svedese Göran Marby, alla guida in una fase cruciale per l’organismo Pubblicato febbraio 10, 2016 ... read more ...
 
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Göran Marby é o homem escolhido para liderar o ICANN - Tem mais de 20 anos de experiência de trabalho relacionados com a Internet, tendo acumulado também valências de empreendedor e de líder de topo. O sueco Göran Marby é o novo CEO do ICANN, posição que vai assumir oficialmente a partir de maio.O nórdico vai suceder a Fadi Chehadé, que vai manter-se na posição de diretor executivo até 15 de março. No período intermédio será o presidente da divisão de domínios globais do ICANN, Akram Atallah, quem vai assumir a liderança provisória.Até ... read more ...
 
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10 Şubat sabah gündemi - - İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Medya A.Ş. Genel Müdürü Bekir Kaplan, Bloomberg HT Ana Haber'de "Nokta İstanbul" projesini anlattı. - "Nokta İstanbul" ile İstanbul'un dünyanın sayılı internet uzantısına sahip şehirlerinden bir tanesi olduğunu vurgulayan Kaplan, 1930 şehrin ICANN'a başvuru yaptığını aralarında İstanbul'un da olduğu 66 şehrin başvurusunun kabul edildiğini söyledi. ICANN'in başvuruları kabul ederken o şehirdeki internet kullanım oranını çok önemsediğini ... read more ...
 
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Göran Marby nommé aux rênes de l’Icann - Le Suédois Göran Marby a été nommé à la tête de l’Icann (Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers), le régulateur mondial d’Internet. Il s’est engagé à soutenir la transition de cet organisme, jusqu’à présent sous tutelle des Etats-Unis, vers un modèle non-gouvernemental et pluripartite. « Le modèle pluripartite a prouvé sa force », indique- t-il dans un entretien avec l’AFP. « Il est important pour moi de continuer cette évolution. C’est la manière ... read more ...
Tue 9th February 2016
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Karcher Partners With TLD KTM - www.karcher.com/us Denver, CO (February 11, 2016) KARCHER North America – a worldwide leader in innovative cleaning solutions announces its new multi-year partnership with Troy Lee Designs Red Bull KTM. Karcher will be the official supplier of pressure washers and other cleaning solutions for the team. “We’re excited to partner with Troy Lee Designs Red Bull KTM, a team synonymous with high quality and high performance. For years, Karcher has provided quality-cleaning solutions to off-road ... read more ...
 
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.Movie Registry Donuts Strengthens Film Industry Relationship With New Anti-Piracy Agreement - Donuts Co-Founder and Executive Vice President Jon Nevett said, “This is a groundbreaking partnership and one we’re proud to undertake,” said . ... read more ...