Wed 15th July 2015
Written by The Domains in EN
Better Buy for $20,500 VapeClub.com or MovieQuotes.com? - Two domain names just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire info in the last hour, with both selling for the same price of $20,500, VapeClub.com and  MovieQuotes.com So the question is what is the better buy? In the case of VapeClub there is an alternative Vape.club The domain name Vape.club is for sale at DomainNameSales.com The Vape industry is huge and hot and seems to be getting hotter but is subject to changes by federal law. MovieQuotes.com is an obviously a high search term but with no product ... read more ...
 
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Twitter and Facebook Gaining in Popularity when it comes to News - Twitter and Facebook are becoming go to sources for news An article published today on Marketing Land looked at a recent survey that showed Facebook and Twitter gaining credibility when it comes to getting news. I would say the one cautionary note about all this is the millions of spoof accounts out there, or sites that say they are parody and users still overlook that disclaimer, and treat the news as real. From the article: Americans increasingly see Twitter and Facebook as meaningful sources for ... read more ...
 
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Judge: "You were perplexing to set him up" in cybersquatting case - Judge rips apart cybersquatting lawsuit. Want to see what it’s like when someone brings a weak cybersquatting case in front of a judge? Domain Name Wire has obtained the transcript from a hearing over a motion for preliminary injunction in the WorkBetter.com case. Office Space Solutions, run by Harsh Mehta, is starting a new business called Work Better. It tried to buy WorkBetter.com from Jason Kneen, who registered the domain name in 1999, last year. Metha then filed a trademark application. ... read more ...
 
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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS – Update … -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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NF.com domain name saved in UDRP - Panel finds against French group but says it isn’t guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), a French certification company, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of NF.com. AFNOR uses the domain name marque-nf.com. The case decision is in Chinese, so I invite any Chinese readers to chime in if I’ve missed anything key here. The domain name owner is in the milk products business, and NF is an acronym for the Chinese word for milk. The panel ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers generics as they come off collision list - Tech giant registers domains such as desktop.computer and computer.systems. Microsoft has started registering generic/descriptive new top level domain names as they are released from the collision list. Specifically, Microsoft has registered at least a half dozen domain names in Donuts’ domains that were recently released as part of the registry’s phased release of names: arcade.zone 7/1 download.center 7/1 developer.center 7/1 desktop.computer 7/8 datacenter.systems 7/8 computer.systems 7/13 The ... read more ...
 
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A Big .News Day - .News, one of the better new top level domain names, launches today. Rightside launches its .News domain name today, and the company is hoping it becomes one of the highlights of its new top level domain name portfolio. .News has already racked up about 1,000 registrations during the trademark sunrise and early access phases of registration. It becomes available for general registration today at 1 PM EDT. Registrars are offering the domains for about $20-$30. “There’s a real appetite for .News,” ... read more ...
 
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases July 2015 Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands … - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BRS Media Inc., a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that helps traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Web, today announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has released the latest 2015 ranking of the .FM Top 40 Hits, the top sites and brands under the FM Top-Level Domain. dotFM’s latest ranking, “.FM Top 40 Hits” lists the top sites and brands ... read more ...
 
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20 End User Domain Name Purchases - A custom tea machine maker, video game company and swimsuit seller buy domain names. Sedo rebounded from the slow holiday week with good sales results, handling $1.5 million in domain name transactions. It made some good four figure sales to end users, including MyHappy.com, Smartel.com and Clone.org. Here’s a look at 20 domain names purchased by end users over the past week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, ... read more ...
 
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Bodis To Offer Bitcoin as a remuneration option - Popular parking service Bodis will now allow customers to be paid in Bitcoin if they like. Matt wrote you can find the option in payment settings and the minimum payout will be just $10. From the Bodis Blog: Starting today, you may choose Bitcoin as a payment method for your domain parking earnings. As the first domain parking company to offer this feature, we hope to please a range of users that would prefer to receive future payments to their Bitcoin wallet. Payments will be converted from the ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website - Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside,  which is the registry for the new gTLD .Market, issued a statement on its company blog about the events of today: “”Earlier today, we learned ... read more ...
 
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.հայ Approved as Unique Domain Suffix for Armenia - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Unique Internet Domain, .հայ, Approved to Represent Armenia Online - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website - Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside,  which is the registry for the new gTLD .Market, issued a statement on its company blog about the events of today: “”Earlier today, we learned ... read more ...
 
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Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up … -   According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is  Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com   We have chatted on many occasions that trademark holders haveonly lightly  participated in the Sunrise periods for each new gTLD rollout with the exception of .porn, ... read more ...
 
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Will Today’s Twitter “News” Help the New gTLDs? - I was watching CNBC this afternoon when I heard the commentators discussing a report about an acquisition bid for Twitter. It was later reported that the article discussing this bid was found on what seems to be a fake Bloomberg website. My first thought was about whether the fake website was operating on a new gTLD domain name to confuse people into believing it was associated with the financial news company. It reminded me of the TMZ.today story. According to an article appearing on Newsweek ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.5 Million Led by SexShows.com At $40K -

Over a past week, 480 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 Million.

52% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .com: sexshows.com during 40,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: i.la during 19,900 USD
· Top “other” TLD: accomplice.net during 7,500 USD

There was usually 1 new gTLD sale and it was a .club

Here are a reportable transactions:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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CSC Publishes July’s NewgTLD.Report: 3945 New gTLD’s in Alexa Top 1 Million - The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday “with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands” In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD’s registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May report” According to the report, the number of new gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1 Million is 3,945 up 4% from the ... read more ...
 
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.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … – SYS - SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/14/15 -- Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains ... read more ...
 
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Right to reply: Happy 30th Birthday dotOrg - Stuart Fuller, Director of Commercial Operations and Communications at NetNames, comments on the 30th birthday of the dotOrg domain name, and how TLDs can help non-profit organisations establish an online marketing strategy. dotOrg was one of the six original Top Level Domains launched in 1985, along with dotCom and dotGov. As opposed to dotCom, which represents commercial interests, dotOrg was launched to reflect charitable or not-for-profit organisations. Thirty years later, the name space has ... read more ...
 
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.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains for their portfolios at special prices. In turn, registrants ... read more ...
 
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Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up Over 5% -   According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is  Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com   We have chatted on many occasions that trademark holders haveonly lightly  participated in the Sunrise periods for each new gTLD rollout with the exception of .porn, ... read more ...
 
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Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps -

Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps

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Via: bna.com

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Great domain sites: UDRPSearch.com - A good resource for domain name disputes. There are a handful of sites I visit multiple types a day, in part to get content for Domain Name Wire. One of these is David Lahoti’s UDRPSearch.com. The free (and ad-less) site makes it easy to see updates on UDRP cases across WIPO, National Arbitration Forum, Czech Arbitration Court and ADNDRC. In addition to viewing the latest case filings and results, UDRPSearch has simple but powerful search features. Highlight any text and it will populate the search ... read more ...