Amazon Settles a New gTLD Contention Set By Private Auction As Donuts Wins … -         Amazon has apparently participated in its 1st new gTLD private auction losing .Group to Donuts. There were 5 applicants for the new gTLD .Group Amazon (AMZN) Donuts Top Level Design, LLC (Raymond King .Wiki .ink) Straat.co (related to former owner of the .Co Registry) Tucows.com (TCX) All applications other than the Donuts application for .Group have been withdrawn from ICANN’s site. I haven’t seen any announcements from the two public companies in this auction or from anyone else. I ... read more ...

.Tokyo Is Live & Got Over 800 Sunrise/Landrush Domains Led By Apple - .Tokyo launched today and is live for domain registrations which seem to be running around $15 a year. It is by far the largest city to have launched its own new gTLD extension with a population of over 13 million people. I went through the zone file and found Apple who rarely participates in new gTLD Sunrise periods seemed to get a lot of .Tokyo domain names. Anyway here is a list of some of the more interesting .Tokyo domain names taken in Sunrise and Landrush and may include some domains registered ... read more ...

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New gTLD 1st Day Registration #: .Exchange 1252; .Capital 909; .Moda 724 … - 5 New gTLD went into their first day of general availability yesterday and combined the 5 new extension have a total of less than 2,500 registrations. After the first day of general availability, including any Sunrise registrations and registrations taken in the Early Access Program here are the totals: .Exchange 1,252 .Capital 909 .Moda 724 .Gripe 212 .Engineering 142 All stats are furnished by ntldstats.com, except for .Capital which RegistrarStats.com had totals for but ntldstats.com did not. With ... read more ...

Aerospace meets cyberspace: aviation and the new gTLDs - One of the most interesting aspects of working in IP is seeing the very practical impact of the work we do. It’s most obvious in brand disputes, where one brand might have to stop a particular advertising campaign, or rebrand completely, but it’s equally present in the aviation sector. I was a regular commuter between London and New York for several years but before that I had acted on a patent dispute involving the inner workings of power units in commercial airliners: there ... read more ...

As new gTLD registrations break the 1.5 million mark, scammers get in on the act - Domain registrations in the expanded gTLD space have busted through the 1.5 million mark, with 1,547,820 domains registered at time of writing. For those wrestling with the impact of the online expansion on their brand spend, a new headache has been identified – solicitation scams targeting registrants. On World Trademark Review we have written often on the problem of trade solicitation scams, whereby fraudsters create sophisticated disguises that look similar to official IP offices and ... read more ...

ICANN London Recap Webinar - The new gTLD program is now firmly underway, with nearly 300 registries already accepting registrations. While there are still a number of unresolved issues, ICANN has shifted its focus to a wide range of other topics, including enhanced accountability and the development of a 5-year strategic plan. With so many important initiatives underway, it can be confusing for business to keep track of them all. Please join ICANN and gTLD experts, Elisa Cooper of MarkMonitor and Brian J. Winterfeldt ... read more ...

.XYZ Debuts on RegstrarStats.com As The 8th Most Registered Top Level … -     .XYZ has become the 8th most registered Top Level Domain according to RegistrarStats.com. .XYZ domain registrations are only surpassed by .Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz, .US and .Mobi (actually .US is a ccTLD not a TLD) This is the first day I have seen .XYZ stats picked up by RegistrarStats.com which shows .XYZ picking up over 4,000 registrations and the only one of the now top 8 to pick up net registrations (of course .XYZ does not have deletions yet) Years before there was ntldstats.com, ... read more ...

WHOIS afraid of reform? Report recommends changing nature of WHOIS records -

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With 565 Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP .Services Appears To Be A Winner - The new gTLD .Services launches tomorrow. Taking into account all Sunrise applications and Early Access Program Registrations, there are 565 domain names registered. We have chatted about the last few weeks that no new gTLD produced any big 1st day registration numbers,  but based on the activity I’m seeing in the Zone file it looks like .Services will be pretty successful. Consider that last weeks total after the 1st day of general availability which also included Sunrise and Early Access/Landrush ... read more ...

New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Services 4584 .Pub 1285 & .GOP Zone’s File is Still … - The new gTLD extension  .Services had the best first 1st day registrations numbers in a month, Including the 565 Sunrise Registrations .Services total after the first day of General Availability is 4,584. Two domain name Registrars, United-Domains and 1and1com sold the biggest amount of .Services about 37% of all .Services registrations Godaddy.com sold the third most .Services domain getting more than 10% of all registrations. .Pub’s has 1,285 domain names registration after its first day of ... read more ...

Problems With GTLD Community Objection Process - Share us on:   Law360, New York (July 09, 2014, 10:28 AM ET) -- If the rollout of many new generic top-level domains since the beginning of 2014 has been smooth on the face of it, the jockeying behind the scenes for ownership of certain strings has been anything but.Of the 1930 applications received, 142 unique strings drew objections and 263 objections were filed. There are four types of objections that can be raised and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... read more ...

The Internet revolution — new gTLD update - Since our last blog post, the total number of domain name registrations among all new gTLDs has reached 1,414,766. There has been little movement this week on the leader board. The leaders are: Click here to view the table. ICANN has delegated four new gTLDs to the root zone: .active .suzuki .place .direct Protecting the home front It is important to remember that each newly delegated string that is set to launch is potentially one new threat to a trademark owner’s brand ... read more ...

Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 … - Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain registration is simply suspended for the term of the registration and becomes available for re-registration once it drops. Since ... read more ...

After 2 Years .Sex, .Porn & .Adult Become “Sensitive Strings” To The New gTLD … - After 2 year years The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has decided that .Sex, .Porn and .Adult are Sensitive Strings according to the minutes of the new gTLD committee to ICANN which are dated July 1st. Interestingly before the application period closed it was wildly speculated by many including myself that the Government Advisory Council (GAC) would object to the strings such as .Sex giving level of opposition to .XXX and the years and number of battles that ICM the registry for .XXX faced to ... read more ...

Thank You GNSO – From the SHE.africa - The recent announcement at the ICANN 50 London, by all stakeholder groups and constituencies comprising of ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) to endorse a joint statement in support of the creation of an independent accountability mechanism "that provides meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community" is a very welcome development to the Multistakeholder framework. It is well ... read more ...

What if France Had Applied for a .WINE New gTLD? - If France had applied... Would the French Government or any other French Private company — such as a French Vineyard — had applied to the .WINE Top-Level Domain, one could wonder what would the situation be today. Well… the situation would be the exact same — the applicant would be in front of three other .WINE applicants with this exact same question: how do I win the auction? A "standard application" All three .WINE projects are standard applications and all stick to what the ... read more ...