Fri 19th June 2015
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Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires – Lexology - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on Jun 24th - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
 
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows the many renouned site Gamecoins.com Drop - I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, 2010: Sometrics launched a site called GameCoins.com in March that allows users to earn virtual currencies in their favorite ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market. And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous week’s expired auctions – evidence of what’s newest and most energetic in today’s domain market – this week NameJet presents us with something old fashioned. Insurance1.com was the top result, weighing in at a lighter $5.2k. Many years ago, registrants were prone ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet | The New Age … -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Horrible domain name alert: QuiQui.me - Good luck pronouncing this domain name without an explanation. A San Francisco startup hopes to start delivering pharmacy items by drone soon. But finding the company via word-of-mouth (or even on the app store) might be a bit challenging. The company’s name is pronounced Quickie, but it is using the domain name QuiQui.me. Qui is pronounced two different two different ways in the same name. That means company representatives are going to have to do a lot of explaining when they tell people about ... read more ...
 
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Canada weighs in on .sucks debate - Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) has told the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that legal avenues exist to protect trademark owners in the new gTLD programme. Deputy minister of Industry Canada John Knubley, on behalf of the OCA, wrote to ICANN on 9 June, after the corporation’s general counsel, John Jeffrey, asked the OCA and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into .sucks operator Vox Populi Registry. Brands have complained that ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned of new .sucks domains - Imagine the website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in the wrong hands. With new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out soon, companies are advised to ensure their trade marks are adequately protected. Donvay Wegierski, trade mark specialist at Werksmans Attorneys, said .sucks, which is aimed at creating online space for consumers to share opinions about businesses and brands, creates risks for businesses ... read more ...
 
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WordPress Foundation sues owners of WordPress domain names - Group goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include “WordPress”. WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com and other domains. The lawsuit alleges that Edward Jeffrey Yablon and PC-VIP, Inc. are infringing WordPress’ trademarks and that the use of the domain names constitutes cybersquatting. The defendants own a number of WordPress related ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells during Sedo - Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned since October 3, 2006. The domain We.com has just went into transfer service at Sedo.com so the buyers are ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Empresas poderão usar domínio .LTDA na internet - Postado por: DiariodoNordeste em Tecnologia 18 de junho de 2015 - 20:50:20 Um nova extensão para domínios na internet está disponível no Brasil. A ferramenta “.LTDA” foi apresentada  nesta quinta-feira (18) e pretende dar oportunidade para que organizações do Brasil criem endereços de sites e campanhas. De acordo com a empresa responsável, a InterNetX Corp, o domínio de topo genérico (gTLD)  é orientado especificamente ... read more ...
 
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Empresas poderão usar domínio .LTDA na internet. - Postado por: DiariodoNordeste em Tecnologia 18 de junho de 2015 - 20:50:20 Um nova extensão para domínios na internet está disponível no Brasil. A ferramenta “.LTDA” foi apresentada  nesta quinta-feira (18) e pretende dar oportunidade para que organizações do Brasil criem endereços de sites e campanhas. De acordo com a empresa responsável, a InterNetX Corp, o domínio de topo genérico (gTLD)  é orientado especificamente ... read more ...
 
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Seven Key Topics to Track During ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires | The National Law … - 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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Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China’s Domain Name Regulation - Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy (here and here). James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical for any TLD registries that hope to have a better understand of ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .Sucks Domain Names | McGuireWoods LLP … - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like ... read more ...
 
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Jian-Chuan Chang - Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China's Domain Name Regulation Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy. James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #13: Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter, Andre Ward & more - In this episode, Diego and I tackle a bunch of topics. We start with recaps of Nicholas Walters and Deontay Wilder‘s victories from last Saturday. Will Walters still fight Vasyl Lomachenko next? And is it time to push the panic button with regards to Wilder? From there, we move onto previews and predictions for Adrien Broner–Shawn Porter, Andre Ward–Paul Smith and David Lemieux–Hassan N’Dam. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: We break down Nicholas Walters’ ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps - Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains” With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new gTLD applications. Rightside secured 39 new gTLD strings and is still negotiating on another 26. One of ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #13: Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter, Andre Ward – The Living Daylights - In this episode, Diego and I tackle a bunch of topics. We start with recaps of Nicholas Walters and Deontay Wilder‘s victories from last Saturday. Will Walters still fight Vasyl Lomachenko next? And is it time to push the panic button with regards to Wilder? From there, we move onto previews and predictions for Adrien Broner–Shawn Porter, Andre Ward–Paul Smith and David Lemieux–Hassan N’Dam. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: We break down Nicholas Walters’ ... read more ...
 
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‘.bank’ Launches into General Availability – Virtual - WASHINGTON, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ".bank" will launch into general availability on June 24 at 00:00:00 UTC for all eligible members of the global banking community. Managed by fTLD Registry Services, the private company owned, operated and governed by banks, insurance companies and their respective trade associations, ".bank", is a new communications channel, fortified with enhanced security measures that exceed those of most existing and new gTLDs.  During the initial sunrise ... read more ...
 
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Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn resources underneath management - Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than 50% of his shares. According to its website: “Established in 1934 to administer the estates of Alexander ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Tesoro - Nous venons de référencer sur TLD une marque supplémentaire spécialisée dans les claviers, souris et casques pour gamers. Il s'agit de Tesoro que certains d'entre vous connaissent sans doute déjà. Ce sont ainsi une dizaine de drivers Windows qui ont été ajoutés dans la base de données. Citons par exemple les claviers des séries Colada, Durandal, Excalibur, Lobera ou encore le dernier Tizona Elite à base de LED RGB. Les souris Gandiva, Gungnir, Shrike ainsi que les casques Kuven sont ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Tesoro – TousLesDrivers.com - Nous venons de référencer sur TLD une marque supplémentaire spécialisée dans les claviers, souris et casques pour gamers. Il s'agit de Tesoro que certains d'entre vous connaissent sans doute déjà. Ce sont ainsi une dizaine de drivers Windows qui ont été ajoutés dans la base de données. Citons par exemple les claviers des séries Colada, Durandal, Excalibur, Lobera ou encore le dernier Tizona Elite à base de LED RGB. Les souris Gandiva, Gungnir, Shrike ainsi que les casques Kuven sont ... read more ...
 
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Another pointer of a 3 minute .com domain name boom… - Sedo Great Domains mailer shows only three letter .com domain names. DNJournal’s sales charts have been dominated by three letter domain names lately. The domain names are hot, and they’re very liquid. As an owner of a three letter .com, I get up to a half dozen emails on some days asking if it’s for sale. People have resorted to including a price in the subject line (most recently hitting $35,000). Domain marketplaces are trying to capitalize on this as well, and this ensures that DNJournal’s ... read more ...