Ping! Zine Editor May 14,May, 2015 Comments Off on The .PARTY domain … - (Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – The new .PARTY domain ending has raced past 100,000 registrations in the 3 short months since its launch. This puts .PARTY firmly in the top ten new generic Top Level Domains released under ICANNs New gTLD program. “We had little doubt that people would love the .PARTY domain ending” said Andy Churley, CMO of Famous Four Media, the registry management company for .PARTY. “Party venues, events and media companies, children’s ... read more ...

The .PARTY domain ending surpasses 100000 registrations in just 3 months - The new .PARTY domain ending has raced past 100,000 registrations in the 3 short months since its launch. This puts .PARTY firmly in the top ten new generic Top Level Domains released under ICANNs New gTLD program. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday Everybody loves to .PARTY! Thursday, 14th May 2015 Gibraltar:  The new .PARTY domain ending has raced past 100,000 registrations in the 3 short ... read more ...

Spam and Phishing in Q1: New Domains Revitalise Old Spam - LONDON, May 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The new range of top level domains, launched in January 2015 and intended for use by relevant communities and organisations, has proved irresistible to spammers according to Kaspersky Lab's Q1 2015 analysis of the spam and phishing threats landscape. For many, the new domains represent an excellent tool for promoting unwanted or illegitimate advertising campaigns. Spam and phishing statistics: The proportion of spam in email traffic according to the figures ... read more ...

10 years of brand protection on YouTube – and a glimpse into the future - Tim Lince This week YouTube is celebrating its 10th anniversary, meaning that trademark counsel have now spent a decade policing brand and content use on the platform. The in-house counsel who heads up YouTube’s trademark and anti-counterfeiting policies admits that finding the correct balance between alleviating brand owner concerns and protecting ... read more ...

First UDRP decision under ‘.paris’ new gTLD -

In a new preference underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a heading French journal publisher has performed a send of dual domain names reproducing a obvious heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.paris’. It is a initial preference ever underneath a UDRP involving a domain…

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Unmet Fundamental Requisites for a Successful gTLDs Program - New pioneering ideas are not always welcomed or requested by consumers. I outline three such examples: 1. The car. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse," Henry Ford once said, or so goes the story. The quote has never been verified, but what it says is true. In 1903 most consumers gave little sign of wanting to buy cars. The Ford Model A began rolling out and all that changed. 2. ATMs. In the late 1970s, many people were still suspicious of impersonal ... read more ...

Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...

Not Every New Domain .Sucks — .CLUB Marks One-Year Launch Anniversary as … - FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwired - May 07, 2015) - While much media attention has been focused on the defensive strategies that celebrities and brands are taking against the new .sucks and .porn domain names, there have been several new domain extensions enjoying widespread success, being registered and used by hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses. One of those successes is .CLUB, the most popular new domain extension, celebrating its one-year launch anniversary today, maintaining ... read more ...

INTA 2015: Trademark Practitioners Must Redefine Their Role in Branding - The 137th International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting just wrapped up in San Diego, and by all accounts, it was the biggest ever—with nearly 10,000 trademark practitioners from more than 150 countries in attendance. The topics under discussion did not vary much from years past—issues such as IP infringement and brand protection remain at the forefront. But this year’s attendees were reminded that they are one of a brand’s most important ambassadors, and they need to start ... read more ...

Adult domain sunrises break records despite trademark counsel “domain fatigue” - Tim Lince After a record-breaking double sunrise period for its ‘.adult’ and ‘.porn’ gTLD strings, ICM Registry has announced it is expanding its programme for trademark owners by allowing sunrise B applicants access to its domain matching programme. The move comes at a time when, according to ICM Registry’s legal counsel, trademark counsel ... read more ...

Advertising Law – May 2015 - In This Issue: Amazon Sues Over Fake Reviews ICANN Seeks FTC Assistance With “.sucks” Domain Name ASME Updates Editorial Guidelines: Don’t Deceive Readers Rough Life: MyLife.com to Pay $1M and Face Injunction Amazon Sues Over Fake Reviews In a new lawsuit, Amazon targeted one individual and four companies that allegedly wrote and posted fake reviews on the e-commerce giant’s site. Amazon’s Conditions of Use expressly prohibit paid reviews, as the site’s 250 million ... read more ...

Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations - Alpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous Four, only seems to have sold registrations on Famous Four’s extensions. .Party which launched a while back has over 5,600 registrations. Its not clear how ... read more ...

Will .sucks … Suck for your brand? - In brief: Despite strong criticism of Vox Populi's pricing scheme as predatory and exploitative, brand owners are paying hefty premiums for early registration in the yourbrand.sucks domain string. With sunrise registration closing on 29 May 2015, you should now be taking the necessary steps to ensure your company can secure a registration during the sunrise period, so that .sucks will not suck for your brand. Partner Tim Golder (view CV) and Associate Carissa Apps report. Introduction .SUCKS Summary ... read more ...

.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD’s Done Right: Here is … - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...

New gTLD .Sale Gets 165 EAP Day 5 Domain Name Registrations; .Video 125 - The new gTLD .Sale which launches into general availability (GA) on Wednesday got 165 registrations on the 5th day of the Early Access program which allows registrants to pay an extra fee to get to register domain names ahead of GA. The list of domain name registered yesterday for both .Sale and .Video comes from Registered.Today As you can see it looks like trademark holders that either missed Sunrise or saved a few bucks by grabbing domain names in the 5th day of EAP registered domain names ahead ... read more ...

Radix Partners With the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Press … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 4, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, announced today that it has partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) to support its Press Freedom initiative. As part of the partnership, Radix will donate a portion of its revenue generated from .press domain registrations from the month of May to ICFJ. World Press Freedom day, held on May 3, celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom and pays tribute to journalists who ... read more ...

ICANN Data Breach Could Result in Unfair Competitive Advantage for New … - Private data entered into the ICANN portals for new gTLD applicants and the GDD (Global Domains Division) was viewable in at least 36 log in sessions since April 2013, according to an ICANN statement issued on Thursday. “The results of the investigation currently indicate that the portal users were able to view data that was not their own,” said the release. The portals store data about applicants to the ICANN new gTLD program and gTLD registry operators. In December ICANN announced that ... read more ...

New domain name registry asks trademark owners to pay up or risk the … - In recent years, the Internet has seen the launch of numerous new top level domain names, i.e., the letter strings to the right of the "dot" such as ".wedding" and "country" that, when combined with a second level domain (the name to the left of the dot) form the domain name as a whole.  This Advisory focuses on one such top level domain, or gTLD: ".sucks".  The .sucks gTLD is especially noteworthy for two reasons.  First, the allocation of .sucks names by the registry chosen ... read more ...

Red-faced ICANN regrets revealing private user financials - Culprits' names to be provided to leak victims next month. Global internet numbering and naming authority ICANN has issued regret over a two-year leak of private financial and technical documents attached to applications from generic top-level domain (gTLD) registrants. ICANN's ... read more ...

Time running out to shape ICANN’s review of trademark protection mechanisms - Trevor Little The comment period for ICANN’s Rights Protection Mechanisms Review closes in two days. With just four comments posted to date, time is fast running out for counsel to help shape the organisation’s review of the trademark protections built into the gTLD programme. With a number of the most sought-after strings yet to hit the market, ... read more ...

Dot Kiwi Celebrates First Anniversary - Dot Kiwi Celebrates First AnniversarySales of .kiwi domains put the company in the top 25% of new domains world-wide1 May 2015 – After a year of significant changes to New Zealand’s domain landscape, Dot Kiwi has announced that it has sold more than 12,000 .kiwi domain names during its first year of operation.Since 1 May 2014, individuals, bloggers, non-profit organisations and companies have bought .kiwi domain names as a new way to represent themselves online via personalised ... read more ...

ICANN’s bill for clawing global DNS from Uncle Sam: $7m and counting - Domain-name overseer ICANN is failing in two fundamental tasks, according to the US government, while spending millions of dollars of internet users' money trying to take control of the critical IANA technical contract. In a letter sent earlier this month from the Senate's Judiciary Committee to the White House new “IP Czar” Daniel Marti, Marti is specifically requested to focus on ICANN and its failure to enforce key agreements with the wider ... read more ...

Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US - One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One,  announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners (“ATP PEP”), one of Europe’s largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com’s launch into the U.S., its ongoing product innovation and the acceleration of its growth in new regions in Europe. Terms of the investment ... read more ...

.sucks For Trademark Owners … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...