Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC  of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru,  could have just bought the domain name which was listed on Sedo with a Buy it now price of $6,000. Instead  the company elected to file a $1,500 UDRP ... read more ...

Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...

Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...

Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...

1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued in Sunrise. Finally .Gal ended its first day of general availability with 1,140. .Gal has nothing to do with ... read more ...

.Auction Sunrise Winds Up With Over 220 Registrations & Over 1/4 Are From Major League Baseball - .Auction which goes into general availability next Wednesday December 10th, Sunrise period just ended for trademark holders and wound up with 228 Sunrise registrations. Major League Baseball, including many of its member teams applied for a over 1/4 of all .Auction domain names. The NBA registered a few domain names and the NHL which we have seen register a lot of Sunrise domains in some extension applied for none. The NFL also passed on registering Sunrise domain names. The biggest missing company ... read more ...

Econsultancy Takes A demeanour during either a new gtlds assistance we arrange aloft in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...

How many new gtlds have we purebred in 2014 ? Nov check formula in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...

New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London Passes 50k - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...

How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...

Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...

.Green Release Launch Time Table: Founders Program Closes Dec 1; GA Set For Mar 24, 2015 - The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 “The Founders Program is Limited to Friends Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit an application by December 1st, 2014″ The .Green Registry also laid out the rest of its launch schedule: Sunrise: Dec 8 – Feb 6, 2015 Registration is only available to trademark ... read more ...

Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10,000 Registrations In First 24 Hours - In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry’s new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight,  which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain names At 10,000 registrations .Click would become the 63rd most registered new gTLD domain name extension ... read more ...

Released From Collision Today: 120K .Host; 10k .Website & 5K .Press New gTLD Domains - Radix the registry for the new gTLD .Host, .Website and .Press is releasing 135,000 new gTLD domain names from that were on the ICANN collision  list today at 1400 UTC 20k .Host new gTLD domain names; 10k .Website domain names and 5k .Press domains will be released. All of these domains were held by by the registry Name Collision list will be released today at for registration Here is the entire list of domain names: Name Collision List for website, press and host If you haven’t read through one ... read more ...

1st New gTLD Totals: .Click 3,779; .Help 1,908; .Property 1,490; .Hosting 1,197: .Diet 787 -

Five New gTLD of Uniregistry  launched into General Availability yesterday

Here are a initial day sum including Sunrise registrations.

None of these extensions had a Early Access Program or Landrush program:

.Click 3,779

.Help 1,908

.Property 1,490

.Hosting 1,197

.Diet 787

Via: thedomains.com

SEO-For-Lawyers on a significance of .attorney names for marketing - Luke Ciciliano did a post for Seo-for-lawyers.com on why he thinks .attorney and .lawyer will hold significance for lawyers in their marketing efforts. In the article he references a Dallas related name being used and showing in the search results, he also mentioned some lawyers he spoke with did not see the point of the new law related domains and did not want to bother with them, until they started showing in the search results. Luke has written a series of articles on why these new tlds will help ... read more ...

This Weeks “Black Friday” Domain Count: .Com 559; .Net 60; .Blackfriday 16 - A week from today actually marks the day know as “Black Friday” which is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States which traditionally is one of the busiest shopping days in the US. Like much else in life when retailers got a good thing, they try to extend it and maximize it. Now a full week before Black Friday, sites like Amazon.com is rolling out their Black Friday sales. Amazon registered the domain name Amazon.Blackfriday back in the Sunrise period when .Blackfriday launched and now ... read more ...

.Music LLC CPE Reconsideration Request Denied - .Music LLC sought reconsideration for Community Priority Evaluation in an effort to be given priority over others who are interested in running .music. .Music LLC believed that when their application was looked at that the panel failed to comply with already established ICANN policies.  The board governance committee denied the reconsideration request. From the report released by ICANN The Requester, .music LLC, seeks reconsideration of the Community Priority Evaluation(“CPE”) Panel’s report ... read more ...