Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Fri 16th August 2013
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95 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE: .Visa; .College; .Casino; .Poker; .Hamburg; . Cologne; .Kia; .Playstation; .Sina - 95 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. Two Geographic applications passed today both a large German cities; .Cologne and .Hamburg Some generic applications passing today include .College; .Earth; .World; .Golf; .Poker; .Casino; .Taxi;. .Yoga; .Tickets; .Foundation and .Gives and Amazon’s application for .Kids and .Author. Some of the .Brand applications passing today was Visa Credit Cards application for .Visa; Safeway Grocers application for .Safeway; Sony’s application for .Playstation;  ... read more ...
 
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8 New gTLD Private Auctions Produce $9.65 Million - Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction. Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after resolving contention for eight new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The winners for the eight contention sets included in this week’s auction were: .guide: Donuts, Inc .construction: Donuts, Inc .storage: Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) .desi: Desi Networks LLC .expert: Donuts, Inc .fishing: Minds + Machines, a subsidiary of Top Level Domain ... 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- It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website.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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WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide” - A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The panel basically found that the community trademarks of the Objector were not bona fide: The Objector filed for registration of its .MUSIC and DOTMUSIC figurative Marks in the European Union on March 5, 2009. Respondent has brought to the Panel’s attention ... read more ...
 
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NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk” In Collision Report To Move Forward - In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle,  the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell within the “unknown risk category in the Interisle report. “With such a long history of productive discussions, it is dismaying to see a great deal of uncertainty about the New gTLD program being introduced at such a late point in the process.” While agreeing ... read more ...
 
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ICDR Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Confusing to .Com - One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICDR) based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to the new gTLD .Cam being too confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding “the visual similarity of the two strings does not allow a conclusion that confusion would result”. “The test is not to decide whether the proposed domain name bears similarities to existing domain name but rather to determine ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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Secretaries of All 50 States Tells ICANN To Follow GAC Advice On INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP - National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. states and territories send a letter to ICANN in late July that was just published today, that the new gTLD’s .INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP.should only be allowed to be registered by  ‘entities that are appropriately registered and in good- standing with the Secretary of State or other appropriate state agency.” “The members of the National ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration - The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD’s is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to preregister a .XYZ domain name however the preregistration does not give you any rights to the domain. .XYZ was ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Formally Announces Sep IPO - CentralNic and SLD’s … You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig; and a pig subject to US Law 15 USC § 1125 – False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden (a) Civil action (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading ... read more ...
 
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USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a Trademark For A New gTLD - Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will have to have a contract with ICANN to operate a new gTLD registry before you apply for a trademark for the gTLD: “The applicant must show that: (i) it has entered into a currently valid agreement with ICANN (a “Registry Agreement”) designating the applicant as the entity responsible for operation of the registry, i.e., maintaining the ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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USPTO Opens Up Comment Period On Examation Guide For New gTLD’s Trademarks - The USPTO has just opened up a comment period for an Examination Guide on trademark applications for new gTLD’s. The comment period closes on September 8th 2013 The examination guide is called “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” and the USPTO is looking for “constructive input on examination guides before they are finalized, a draft version of an examination guide on marks comprised of gTLDs is being made available now for comment”. The ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Planning Sep IPO On London Stock Exchange With a Valuation of More Than £30m - According to telegraph.co.uk,  CentralNic will announce its intention to go public on the London Stock Exchange tomorrow. CentralNic is the backend provider for “at least 25 new gTLD’s  including .college and .wiki as well as addresses on a portfolio of 24 website endings including .uk.com and .us.com and .La. CentralNic, plans to raise £5m in an initial public offering that would value it at more than £30m. According to the story, CentralNic plans to use the funds it raises from its ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Loses Legal Rights Objection To Google’s new gTLD App For .DIY - A WIPO panel has rejected Scripps Networks Legal Rights Objection to Google’s New gTLD application of .diy Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The Objector holds United States Registration No. 2457989 (registered June 5, 2001) for DIY. The mark is registered in International Class 042 as a standard-character service mark for “providing a website of information about television programming; news and weather; gardening and landscaping; crafts and hobbies; sewing and quilting; ... read more ...
 
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Next Round Of New gTLD Private Auctions Take Place This Week TLDH Is in 4 Of Them -   The 2nd round of the private new gTLD auctions to resolve contention being run by Applicant Auction takes place this week starting Tuesday and a second participant has stepped forward to publicly say they are participating. Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is participating in private auctions for .GUIDE, .CASA, .网址 (which means web address in Chinese) and .FISHING. Donuts the largest applicant for new gTLD announced a few weeks ago that they were committing 68 new gTLD’s that they applied ... read more ...
Sat 10th August 2013
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105 New gTLD Pass ICANN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish; .Jeep; .Barclays - 105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayern Leading the way on the .Brand applications were the new gTLD applications of Google for .Google; The National Football League’s application for .NFL; Major League Baseball’s application for .MLB and .Baseball;  The car makers applications for .Mitsubishi,  .Nissan and .Jeep;  the worldwide Hotel chain .Hyatt; the .Com and .Net Registry ... read more ...
Fri 9th August 2013
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xBiz: Morality in Media Asks The Feds To Probe ICM Registry Over .XXX .Porn - According to xBiz.com, Morality in Media has  called on federal authorities to probe ICM Registry after the operator of the .XXX TLD received initial approval for the .porn gTLD. “The anti-porn group, led by Patrick Trueman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity unit, said that the establishment of a .porn domain will increase the spread of online porn.” “Trueman, who has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the registry because it may ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate Between “Ability” and “Advisability.” - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...
 
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3 More .Brand New gTLD’s are Withdrawn: Now 108 Pulled - Three more .Brand new gTLD application have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. Microsoft withdrew it applications for .Skydrive which had a prioritization number of 386. Microsoft described the application for .Skydrive as follows: “The SkyDrive® hosting service allows users, at no charge, to store files and to access their personal files from any computer with an internet connection. SkyDrive users can share photos and files or collaborate on documents with contacts Over 100 million people in ... read more ...
 
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Tucows: Sold .Marketing & .Media New gTLD Applications For “A Substantial Sum” - In its earnings call today Tucows.com (TCX)  said that they sold two of their new gTLD applications for a “Substantial Sum” that will be reflected in its  YummyNames.com subsidiary revenue in the third quarter of 2013. Tucows.com which was one of the applicants for .Media and .Marketing but withdrew their application for both, and combined with Unregistry’s withdrawn for the same two strings, it left Donuts as the sole applicant for .Media and .Marketing. It has been previously reported ... read more ...
 
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Directv Beat Dish Network As Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Direct Is Upheld - The second Legal Right Objection been upheld by a three member WIPO panel this time by The DirecTV Group Inc. against its competitor Dish DBS The applied-for gTLD string .Direct. Directv did not apply for the new gTLD .Direct, but its main competitor Dish Network did and Directv filed this objection. The only other new gTLD application for .direct was filed by Half Trail, LLC a Donuts company. The WIPO Panel Decision can be best summarized by this paragraph in the ruling: “The Panel rejects Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Site Calls Large Applicants Of New gTLD’s “Domain Squatters” - In a blog post on casinoaffiliateprograms.com, taking about the new gTLD .Poker new gTLD applicants are being referred to as Domain Squatters and says that Donuts Binky Mill LLC has dropped its application for .Poker “The way new domains are handled is a bit complex. When new domains are announced, companies bid for the rights to “hold” the domains. This means that the company that purchases the gTLD .poker will have final control over who can purchase a domain that ends in .poker. A company ... read more ...
 
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RBC: Demand Media New gTLD Initiative Could Be Worth More Than Its Registrar Business: enom.com, name.com - RBC issued an Equity Research Report  today on Demand Media, Inc., the day after Demand Media, Inc, reported its second quarter earnings. Demand Media announced during the earnings report and the earnings call that followed that Google’s Search algorithm continues to impact Demand’s owned and operated site traffic negatively and to a greater extent than captured in estimates. Shares of Demand are down over 5% in early trading today at $6.21 as time of publication although they hit as low as ... read more ...
Wed 7th August 2013
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Verisign: We Will Delegate New gTLD’s To The Root If The NTIA Tells Us To - Some bloggers here and here, have raised the alarm that Verisign may not Delegate new gTLD’s based on a letter Verisign send to the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) back in March. I reached out to Verisign to get an updated comment and position of Verisign on the issue and asked if Verisign would delegate 20 new gTLD strings per week as is ICANN’s current plan starting sometime late this year and certainly for 2014 under the new gTLD program. A Verisign spokesperson ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Reports: Revenue Up 9%; Registrar Revenue Up 4% Without Name.com + 10% With -   Demand Media, Inc. (DMD),reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013 Financial Summary: Content Media revenue ex-TAC grew 9% year-over-year. This was driven primarily by 15% Owned Operated revenue growth, which slowed sequentially from 26% year-over-year growth in Q1 2013, due primarily to traffic declines from lower search engine referrals. Network revenue ex-TAC declined 15%, due primarily to lower revenue from YouTube Channels. Registrar revenue grew 10% ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements - ICANN has opened the comment period for  “Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements” The operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims processes in new gTLDs, and a set of community-proposed revisions, are being posted for comment to give an opportunity for the community to review and provide feedback on these requirements. This revised version of the RPM Requirements reflects updates based on community consultations, and a set of proposals from ... read more ...