Tag Archives: Donuts

Thu 21st November 2013
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Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead. - The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. The case got off to a bizarre start, with Donuts calling into question Pellet’s impartiality and independence. Donuts pointed out that Pellet has a bias to the medical community and that Donuts’ TLDs make up a large part of ... read more ...
Tue 19th November 2013
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Donuts Picks Sedo To Run Sunrise Auctions & Run Premium Domain Name Auctions - Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to  manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are opened for public availability. In instances where there are multiple claims for the same mark, Sedo will ... read more ...
 
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Sedo gets understanding with Donuts for Sunrise and Premium Domains - Sedo gets a tasty customer for new top level domain name services. Sedo has nabbed a big client with Donuts signing on to use its services to resolve sunrise contention as well as sell some of its premium domain names. Donuts will use Sedo’s auction technology for cases in which more than one company submits a sunrise-eligible claim on the same domain name. Sedo will also auction off some of Donuts’ “premium” second level domain names. This deal is interesting ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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Donuts wins dual some-more fibre objections, settles another - Only four string confusion objections have not been decided. The contentious and highly unpredictable string confusion objection process for new top level domain names is coming to a close. International Centre for Dispute Resolution posted three more decisions today, leaving just four decisions outstanding. The three decisions all involved mega-applicant Donuts. Commercial Connect brought and lost two of the cases. The company claimed that .supplies and .商店 ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall - Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can’t find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of consonants and vowels because that’s all that’s available in dot com. So they end up with newyork35avepizza.com ... read more ...
 
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Donuts to skip Landrush on initial collection of TLDs - Sunrise to begin November 26. Donuts announced this morning that it plans to start the sunrise for its first seven top level domain names on November 26. The sunrise will close on January 24, 2014. The seven domains are .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures. Interestingly, the company has chosen to skip the landrush phase for these domain names. The landrush period typically allows people interested in premium domains to place their ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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Donuts successfully defends .reisen village objection - Panelist says German-speaking travelers qualify as a community, but objection fails on other grounds. New top level domain name applicant Donuts has successfully defended a community objection brought against its application to run the .reisen top level domain name. The German word reisen means “travels” or “journeys” in English. The objection was brought by the applicant for .reise, which means “traveling” in English. In coming to his decision, panelist ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Applicant questions how .Cars collision can be cleared - One applicant for .cars has good questions about how exactly it can resolve its contention set. DERcars, an applicant for the .cars top level domain name, has filed a reconsideration request (pdf) with ICANN’s board after Google won a string confusion objection against the company’s .cars application. I wrote about the .cars case a few weeks ago, and said that ICANN would be forced to act in the wake of the string confusion objection. As one reader pointed out, ... read more ...
 
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Four some-more new TLD row sets staid in private auctions - Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more new TLD contention sets. Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service. Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for new top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount. It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Donuts To Start Sunrise Period For 9 New gTLD’s On Oct 29th - This is a great discussion. My day job got in the way this week which is why it took a while for me to get back to this interesting (at least to me) thread. I agree at least a bit with all of you I believe that: 1) A registrant with a .com will not give up that .com and move to a new TLD, but also there are currently millions of registrants that give up a .com every year nevertheless. Those deletes are currently replaced with other .com registrations, and I believe a portion of those new ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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Block your heading on 200+ tip turn domains for $600 a year - Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The service allows trademark holders to block the registration of second level domains that contain their mark across all of Donuts’ domains. In order to qualify, the trademark must be registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse. Companies ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On? - Donuts.co which applied for 307 new gTLD strings has stated all along that they were in partnership with Demand Media (DMD) on 107 of the applications. However I do not think Donuts or Demand have publicly stated which of the 107 new gTLD’s that Donuts applied for that they are in a partnership with Demand Media on. Looking through some new gTLD applications today I found that 107 applications are now held by a parent company called Covered TLD, LLC (Covered Donuts) and another 201 are held by ... read more ...
 
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Google beats Donuts in .Games tip turn domain name dispute - .Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that having both .games and .game as top level domain names would confuse internet users. It convinced the panelist of this, which means that Donuts’ uncontested application for .games is now contested. It will have to beat ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
Thu 12th September 2013
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An overview of a Seattle domain name circuit - Last week I visited the many domain name companies that call Seattle home. Seattle is home to a large (and growing) number of domain name companies.Last month I took my annual family “escape the Texas heat” vacation to Seattle. I didn’t get the chance to visit any of the domain companies in the area while I was there, so last week I took a return trip to Seattle to rectify that. The collection of domain name companies in Seattle is large and growing. This is ... read more ...
Fri 30th August 2013
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ICANN finally signs some-more new TLD contracts; Donuts signs a dozen - A dozen Donuts as ICANN finally starts inking more registry agreements. Since ICANN signed four new top level domain registry contracts at its meeting in Durban in mid-July, no more have been signed. Until now. Donuts is reporting that it has signed a dozen (hopefully glazed) more registry contracts with ICANN. It signed one for 游戏, Chinese for “Game”, at the Durban meeting. The contracts cover .bike, .camera, .clothing, .equipment, .estate, .guru, .holdings, ... read more ...
Mon 26th August 2013
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Nau strikes again: Google wins .tours conflict opposite Donuts - .Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set. Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names. This time Google has won an objection (pdf) against Donuts’ application for .tours. Google applied for .tour, and now .tour and .tours will be placed in a contention set as a result of the ruling. Once you see the panelist’s name for this decision, you won’t be surprised by ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses & TLDH Wins .Casa - It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website. Donuts application for .Casa has a prioritization number of 1,622 and has not yet passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  meaning that Donuts will get 70% refund of their $185,000 application fee. The only other applicant for .Casa is Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) which had a prioritization number of 171 which appears ... read more ...
 
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Donuts beats the third conform code in tip turn domain disputes - Coach, Inc. lost its objection to Donuts’ .coach application. New TLD applicant Donuts has now successfully defended itself against three fashion brands in Legal Rights Objections over top level domain applications. After beating The Limited and Express, the company can add Coach to its list. Coach, Inc., a $15 billion (market cap) company known for its purses, is the only other applicant for .coach. By filing a Legal Rights Objection, it hoped to win the string ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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Tucows and Donuts strike understanding on .media and .marketing - Donuts paid Tucows to walk away from two new top level domain bids. Donuts negotiated a deal with rival applicant Tucows for the strings .marketing and .media, which is why the latter withdrew its applications for the two domains last month. While neither party disclosed the terms of the deal, a video released by Tucows shows that Donuts paid Tucows to withdraw its applications. Because Tucows is a public company, we will likely get more details when it releases earnings ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Donuts peaceful to send 68 strings to auction in August - New top level domain applicant commits more strings to private auction model. Donuts, the largest applicant for new top level domains, has committed up to 68 strings to the next new TLD “private” auction held by Applicant Auction next month. In the first auction held in May, Donuts committed 63 domains. In order to go to auction, all applicants for the string must agree. Only six of the 63 went to auction, and Donuts won just one of the domains. The average bidding ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Just like Express, The Limited loses .Limited new tip turn domain objection - Donuts has scored its second victory against a large fashion brand. The company has successfully defended itself in a Legal Rights Objection brought by Limited Stores, LLC for the top level domain .Limited. It recently won a case brought by Express for .express as well. The .limited case was determined by Robert A. Badgley, who was not the same panelist for the .express objection. Donuts’ application for the .limited domain claims that likely registrants will include ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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5 ways Express can solve the .Express concerns - Despite losing objection, Express still has plenty of ways to tackle the .express top level domain. American clothing retailer Express (NYSE: EXPR), which has a market cap of close to $2 billion, has lost its Legal Rights Objection against Donuts over the top level domain .express. Kevin Murphy has a good write-up explaining the decision. Express has also applied for the .express top level domain. That means it has many options to resolve its concerns about brand ... read more ...
Mon 1st July 2013
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DONUTS EXPANDS SALES AND MARKETING TEAM, OPENS NEW OFFICE AHEAD OF NEW gTLD LAUNCH - Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed a round of hiring that further strengthens its sector-leading team of domain and Internet industry experts. Donuts also announced the opening of its new office in Calabasas, Calif., where sales and marketing efforts are based. In anticipation of new gTLDs becoming available later this year, Donuts has staffed an international team to build channel relationships and prepare for the next phases of the new gTLD program. ... read more ...
 
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Donuts hires 6 for sales and marketing - New top level domain applicant adds sales team ahead of new TLD launch. Donuts, which applied for more top level domain names than any other company, has staffed up its sales and marketing team. The company announced six hires today, at least one of which was previously known. Sales and marketing efforts will be based in the company’s new Calabasas, California (Los Angeles) office. The company hired Bob Samuelson to as VP of Sales Marketing. Samuelson joins from ... read more ...