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Tue 12th May 2015
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New gTLDs in action (and comedy) - A year and a half after rolling out the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD), over 600 new domains have been delegated and about five million new domain names have been registered in the new gTLDs. Despite these impressive numbers, the feeling is that the average consumer is still unaware of this massive expansion of the Internet. However, there are some indications that the tide is turning. In the current season of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley,” fictional tech giant ... read more ...
 
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Coming soon: .bank and .insurance domain names - In 2008, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (“IANA”), the nonprofit organization overseeing global IP address allocation, began the process of creating and auctioning new top-level domains. Since then, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), has confirmed a number of new ‘generic’ top level domains (“gTLD”), including two new “community-based gTLDs” for the financial services community, .bank and .insurance. “Community-based gTLDs” ... read more ...
 
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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…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Vox Populi Registry Says "Enough" About .SUCKS Accusations - May 11, 2015 John O. Jeffrey General Counsel Secretary ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 Re: Vox Populi Registry Agreement Dear Mr. Jeffrey, This firm represents ICANN's contractual partner, Vox Populi Registry ("Vox Populi"). I write regarding your letter to The Honorable Edith Ramirez, the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), and The Honorable John Knubley, the Deputy Minister of Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs ("OCA"), dated April 9, ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .CLUB Celebrates First Birthday - A year after the launch of .club, there are over 220,000 websites registered and almost 40,000 active with the new gTLD. .Club is being held up as one of the successes among the new extensions, as awareness of new gTLDs remains low and web user and stakeholders have reported mixed experiences. Some .club domains have sold for high amounts, lead by wine.club, which was auctioned for $140,000, and others including coffee.club and vegas.club going for six figures. Premium .club domain sales have ... read more ...
 
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NCC adds domain security with new partnership - What is Bdaily? Bdaily is a regional business news website, covering content in the North East, North West, South East and Yorkshire. We deliver a daily email bulletin directly to your inbox, featuring the latest news and event listings in your area. On the site we have a main news section, where our journalists publish breaking business news throughout the day.  In addition we have a members’ news section, where our members can upload their own stories using the self-publishing ... read more ...
Sun 10th May 2015
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GetDotBit Has Registered Over 700 Decentralized .Bit Domain Names, and … - Daniel Ternyak, CEO and founder of the “no nonsense” .bit domain name registrar GetDotBit, launched his project on April 23. Since then, he has offered no-cost registrations to his customers for their first domain name. Over 700 .bit domains have been registered so far, and he says an end date for the free registrations is “not yet” planned. He continues: “Anyone even remotely interested in Namecoin should go grab [a .bit domain].” CoinTelegraph spoke with Ternyak to find out about ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
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Darryn Durham Out for 2015 Motocross Season - Darryn Durham will miss the 2015 Motocross season due to injury. TLD has not confirmed whether a fill-in rider will be chosen to take his place. As the much anticipated 2015 Pro Motocross Championship season rapidly approaches, many riders are out at the track, testing and honing their skills. One rider who will be absent from the prep and the starting line of the Hangtown Motocross Classic is TLD's Darryn Durham. Durham suffered a wrist injury back at Round 1 of the 2015 AMA Supercross Championship ... read more ...
 
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Domain name operator Rightside posts 13% revenue gain, swings to profit - Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside.Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and solid net income for its first quarter. Shares, which are up 28 percent so far this year, gained more than one percent in trading today. The Kirkland company reported total revenue of $50.5 million, up from $44.5 million for the same period last year. Net income was $1.8 million, compared to a net loss of $2.2 million for the ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Results - First Quarter Total Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year Signed 4 new gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Year-to-Date KIRKLAND, Wash., May 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. "We had a strong start to the ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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The Buzz | Mitchell Oldenburg to TLD KTM - Mitchell Oldenburg was impressive aboard his ARMA Energy Yamaha this Supercross season.TransWorld Motocross has learned that there are some changes in store for the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM team this summer, as Mitchell Oldenburg has been recruited to field a factory KTM 250 SX-F alongside Jessy Nelson and Shane McElrath. Word has it Darryn Durham’s wrist hasn’t fully healed from the injury that sidelined him at the start of the Monster Energy Supercross Series.Oldenburg completed the ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
 
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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 ...
 
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Squarespace Partners with Rightside to Offer New gTLDs - Rightside and Squarespace have teamed up to offer new gTLDs to users of Squarespace’s website builder. Some of the new gTLDs that will be available include .BAND, .ROCKS, .NINJA, .DANCE, and .LAWYER, among others. Since the introduction of new gTLDs there has been some struggle with raising enough awareness among SMBs and individual users that new gTLDs are available and can be quite affordable. By partnering with Squarespace, a site builder with broad appeal, Rightside could be bringing new ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.sucks — Unless You Act Now! - As the INTA Annual Meeting winds down, one memory for me that certainly stuck out was an on-site ad campaign revolving around the new “.sucks” top-level domain (“TLD”). Depending on whom you ask, it’s either ingenious or diabolical. Just outside the San Diego Convention Center, the throngs of orange lanyard-wearing conference attendees were greeted by some rather cheery folks holding white signs with the “.sucks” TLD laid over some speech bubbles. That nice lady who graciously ... read more ...
 
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Don’t be .sucker punched by the latest domain extension! - Brand owners!  Have you heard about the .sucks domain names? Sunrise registrations for the TLD opened on 30 March and Instagram, Bank of America and Keven Spacey have already secured their .sucks. Controversial domain extensions like .sucks are nothing new. However, the high fees to secure a .sucks are unprecedented. Canadian company Vox Pupuli, the TLD owner, charges nearly USD$2,500 to register during the sunrise period. This makes it a difficult decision, especially for brand ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #9: Canelo-Kirkland & Mayweather-Pacquiao - In this episode, Diego and I give our Mayweather-Pacquiao postmortem. We dissect the fight itself, talk about how it had impossible hype to live up to and wonder what’s next for both men. Was Manny Pacquiao’s shoulder injury a deciding factor? Is Floyd Mayweather that much better than Pacquiao? We also preview Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-James Kirkland, a fight that promises tremendous action and carries major implications. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the episode: We know that Manny ... read more ...
 
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Coming Soon: .Bank And .Insurance Domain Names - 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 ...
 
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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 ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .sucks Domain Names - The sunrise period for trademark owners to register their .sucks domain names has started. That means owners of federally registered trademarks (and celebrities) can pay around $2,000 to get their brands’ .sucks domain names before those domains go on sale to the general public on June 1, 2015. Yes, you read that correctly. The cost to secure your .sucks domain name before anyone else can get it is at least $2,000. If you wait until June 1, you can register any .sucks domain for $249 ... read more ...
Wed 6th May 2015
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Renowned Four Press’s.SCIENCE domain expansion quickly increases to get to … - This post was originally published on link to postIt Is Bomb.SCIENCE Thursday, 06 May 2015, Gibraltar: Popular Four Press, a worldwide head within the supply of universal Top-Level Areas (gTLDs), today declared the.SCIENCE new universal Top-Level Site, a domain registry that it handles, has already reached over domain 250,000 enrollment (internet handles) in a few months. This makes.SCIENCE among the fastest-growing site registries in the world. ldquo;We’re naturally happy using the ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
 
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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 ...
 
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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 ...