Fri 9th October 2015
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2016 Troy Lee Designs Adventure Gear First Look-Photos - MotoUSA takes a trip to Mammoth Lakes to check out the all new Troy Lee Designs Adventure Gear. Read the full article. 10 Photos Dr. Frazier’s Globe Killer KLR650 Part 7 Photos 2015 Brittney Ride for St. Jude’s Photos ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2015
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Frank Schilling (FTS, Corp) Now Owns 5.5% Of Rightside - According to a SEC filing (Schedule 13D), a corporation out of the Cayman Islands FTS, Corp (FTS) now owns over 5.5% of the outstanding shares of publicly traded Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME). FTS is the initials of Frank Schilling and the form is signed by a Ria Scott Blyth who according to their Linkedin page is an Executive Assistant for Uniregistry. According to the filing FTS, Corp owns 1,008,142 shares representing 5.5% of the outstanding shares of Rightside. According to the filing, ... read more ...
 
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A Frank Schilling association owns some-more than 5% of Rightside - SEC filing discloses interest in company. Some people say the domain name business is an incestuous industry. They might be right. An SEC filing this afternoon discloses that a company associated with Frank Schilling now owns 5.5% of the company. The filing was made by FTS, Corp in Grand Cayman. Schilling’s middle name is Taylor, hence FTS are his initials. The filing was made by Ria Scott Blyth, Administrative Assistant of FTS Corp. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she works for Frank Schilling’s ... read more ...
 
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World Trade Centers wins 89 domain names, including 9/11 names - Group takes over domain names registered on and after 9/11. World Trade Centers Association, Inc. has won 89 domain names in a cybersquatting dispute. The group filed a cybersquatting complaint with Czech Arbitration Court over 90 domain names, all of which included some reference to WTC or World Trade Center, such as 9-11WTC.com, RememberWTC.org and WTCForum.com. A panelist ordered that 89 of the domain names be transferred to World Trade Centers Association. It declined the transfer of ZWTC.com, ... read more ...
 
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An refurbish on a Adam Dicker allegations - Progress is being made settling issues brought to light earlier this week. Earlier this week I wrote about accusations made against domain name investor Adam Dicker. Since that time, a few things have happened that I think warrant posting an update. First, a number of people have come forward with stories about how they believe Adam deceived them or broke promises. Second, Adam is now responding to some of these claims. Third, it appears Adam has paid money to many of those that believe they were ... read more ...
 
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.NYC One Year Anniversary Is Today; Collision List Drops & City Issues Updated Stats - To mark the one-year anniversary of .nyc, the City of New York published the latest statistics on the state of the .nyc domain name. The ICANN Collision list for .NYC is being released today for registration today as well. It will be interesting to see how many get registered. Here are the more interesting stats from the report which can view in its entirety here. To date there are just over 85,000 .nyc registered domain names, more than any other city new gTLD. The average retail cost paid for a ... read more ...
 
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CSC October's New gTLD Utilization: 5,340 New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M - CSC’s Published Its October New gTLD Utilization Report,  showing the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since their September report. The report was prepared by Here is the top 10: .link.tokyo     ... read more ...
 
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Here's what those Amazon AWS domain name registrations were for - Amazon’s domain name registrations this week indeed were for AWS announcements, but some are still to come. On Monday I wrote about Amazon.com’s domain name registrations that foreshadowed services it was likely to announce at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. Now that the conference is underway, we know what many of these domain names are for. Monday domain registrations: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com, awsiotservice.com ... read more ...
 
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.Club to auction dual minute domain names - Registry wants to tap into Chinese buyers with auction on EachNic.com. .Club is auctioning a number of two letter .club domain names, along with the single letter C.club, at auctions beginning later this month. Most of the two letter combinations, such as TB.club and DS.club, have $5,000 reserves. A couple have $10,000 reserves and C.club starts at $50,000. Here are a couple observations about the approach .Club is taking to selling its two character domain names: 1. Hoping to take advantage of Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Baib.com, YN.com, Battlecast.com & More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move, mainly all by large corporations for one reason or another. These are often early detection’s and often result in a new product, service, business or advertising campaign in the near future. Since this is often the very first time anything is being mentioned about “it”, it can be challenging to find out very much information relating to what “it” may actually be or relate to… but it often gives us clues. Here we go with ... read more ...
Wed 7th October 2015
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gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open: October 2015 - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Google Expands Its Domain Registration Service With Addition of Nearly 90 New … - web addresses that are highly creative to the left of the dot, and highly specific to the right of the dot." Google VP and CIO Ben ... read more ...
 
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Forbes.com Covers .Film & 1st Domains; February.film & Septembersofshiraz.film - Forbes.com just covered the launch of the new gTLD .Film “So far, two new movies will be the first to debut the .film web extension: Osgood Perkins’ February starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton (www.February.film); and Wayne Blair’s Septembers of Shiraz starring Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody (www.Septembersofshiraz.film).” Yesterday, .film was officially launched by the Motion Picture Domain Registry, which developed policies the new gTLD directed aiming to reinvent the ... read more ...
 
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What domains Genentech and 20 other finish users bought final week - Genentech, Roche, and Booking.com bought domain names last week. Sedo had a great last week, handling 689 transactions for $1.5 million. The volume was driven by 100 four letter .com domain name sales, but its end user sales also had strong prices. The 64,000 dollar question this week is, “Who paid $64,000 for PassItOn.com at Sedo?” The domain is still being transferred, and the current holding page for a company in stealth mode is left over from the seller. Perhaps we’ll find out next week ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry Retains KCSA Strategic Communications as Public Relations Counsel – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT, and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces KCSA Strategic Communications, a leading New York-based communications firm, will lead the Company's public relations program. KCSA will deploy a global outreach campaign to increase awareness of ICM Registry's latest domain -- .SEX. Following the ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines To Go With An 8 Day Early Access Program For .Law/.Abogado - Minds + Machines announced today for the first time, they will be running an Early Access Program (EAP) as part of the launch of .law and .abogado (spanish). The EAP period will run 8 days from 12-18 October. “During this EAP period an extra fee will be charged in addition to the standard annual charge for each domain name. Each day, the EAP fee will descend in price until the point where on the 8th day, the EAP fee will no longer exist and only Standard or Premium name annual charge will apply.” I’m ... read more ...
 
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Bridgestone Launches 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Website - Tokyo (October 2, 2015) - Bridgestone Corporation today announced that it has launched a new website dedicated to 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. The site is designed to offer an additional element of enjoyment to the numerous fans of the solar car race for which Bridgestone is the primary sponsor. On this website, the Company will post updates regarding the teams to which it is supplying tires, as well as information about its tire technologies. During ... read more ...
 
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Google Beefs Up Domain Registrar Service With 90 New Top-Level Domains And … - Google introduced major changes to its domain name registration service, adding business-centric features that Google hopes will attract customers away from domain giants such as Namecheap and GoDaddy. (Photo : Mike Windle | Getty Images) Google has made a major revamp to Google Domains, its domain name registration service launched in beta in the United States in 2014. The upgraded service now includes a trio of improvements that Google hopes will help it match up to the competition. Google ... read more ...
 
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.Club To Auction C.Club & 24 Double Letter Domains - According to a press release that is just out, C.Club and twenty-four 2-character .CLUB domain names are set to hit the auction block on October 29, 2015 in a series of five fast-moving auctions with each auction lasting three days. “This auction will be held on the Chinese EachNic.com platform, and marks the first time .CLUB Domains, the Registry behind one of the world’s most popular new domain extensions, is offering this set of domains in a public auction format. The domain inventory included ... read more ...
 
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Tagheuer Loses URS Which Now Seems Limited To Domains Parked or Offered For Sale - Tagheuer has become the latest trademark holder to lose a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding on the domain name tagheuer.digital Ho-Hyun Nahm, as Examiner found in favor of the domain holder although the domain did not resolve finding: “Passive holding can be considered as an indication of bad faith. However, in case of the disputed domain name, it has been less than four (4) months since its registration on June 19, 2015. As such, the period of passive holding is too short to infer Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Here are reward domain names .Club sole final month - Soho.club sells for $5k, leading .Club’s premium sales last month. The .Club domain name registry continues to release details of its premium domain name sales. It’s also including data on expired domain name sales from its unique relationship with SnapNames. Last month the company sold $53,742 of domain names through the registrar/premium channel. It also sold $10,682 of domain names through SnapNames auctions, and another 84 domains at $69 each through individual backorders at Snapnames. The ... read more ...
 
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As we predicted, National Car Rental fixing rights are for St. Louis stadium - City hopes to keep NFL Rams in the city with new stadium. On Saturday I wrote about National Car Rental registering domain names related to naming rights for a sports stadium. I predicted that it was for St. Louis. St. Louis is working on a plan for a stadium to try to keep the National Football League Rams in town, and National Car Rental is based in St. Louis. Turns out I was right. The company is pledging $158 million for National Car Rental Field, a proposed stadium on the Mississippi riverfront ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
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Generic Top Level Domain Insights for Q3 2015 - Participants in the recently released Global Consumer described new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) as being "innovative", "trustworthy", "interesting", "informative", and "cutting edge". With such impressive descriptions, it appears that the industry has made significant progress in reaching the tipping point. Although Q3 reflects growth, it also highlights the varying degrees of performance and need for further advancement in developing consumer awareness and in turn, the health of the industry. September ... read more ...
 
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MP3skull Getting Wiped from the Internet In 3… 2…1… - Last month, we witnessed ShareBeast get completely wiped from the internet by the RIAA, US Department of Justice, FBI, National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (NIPRCC), and US Department of Homeland Security, with a US District Court judge authorizing the TLD (‘Top Level Domain’) removals.<!--/* * The backup image section of this tag has been generated for use on a * non-SSL page. If this tag is to be placed on an SSL page, change the * 'http://72.52.81.231/revive/www/delivery/...' * ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by PassiToN.com for $64,000 - Over the past week, 689 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 55% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: passiton.com at 64,000 USD Top ccTLD: j.de at 22,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: reward.net at 14,800 USD New Gtld sales: entrepreneur.beer    2,500    USDtrusted.company    1,800    EURastro.club    1,500    USDdig.life    999    USDisy.club    800    USD Last week ... read more ...