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Fri 24th April 2015
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KickassTorrents New Domain Goes Down Within 24 Hours, Shifts To .CR Domain - KickassTorrents is the next target for anti-piracy authorities as the website has become bigger than the Pirate Bay. Yesterday, the KAT team shifted its website to Isle of Man .im domain but the domain was seized after few hours, forcing the team to look for another domain. The KAT team is now looking to get their website hosted at Costa Rican .cr TLD. “We have been seized by the Isle of Man domain registry. The ... read more ...
 
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TLD’s McElrath set for first Supercross on live TV on Fox Sports (Saturday, 3 pm … - April 24, 2015 Filed under News, Top Stories, Uncategorized News release On Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shane McElrath will make not only his debut aboard the KTM 450 SX-F but also will do so in front of the largest TV audience to date as the race will be broadcast on live network television on FOX (3pm EST / Noon PST) for the first time ever. McElrath just completed the ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Verisign Reports First Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015. First Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $258 million for the first quarter of 2015, up 3.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $88 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.66 for the first quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $94 ... read more ...
 
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Will New gTLDs be to the Internet what Cable was to Television ? - Jennifer Wolfe published an article on ClickZ that used an analogy that I myself have thought about to a certain degree when it comes to the new gtlds. Will the new gtlds be to the Internet what Cable TV was to Television ? There is something there, COM, NET and ORG would play the roles of ABC, CBS, and NBC, but the comparison imo doesn’t stay completely true, that is because when cable tv started we all got to know who the new stations were. Whether you were young or old, you quickly came to know ... read more ...
 
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KickassTorrents Shifts To .im TLD - KickassTorrents has shifted its domain name to Isle of Man TLD (Top-Level Domain) and it has started serving its pages from this new .im domain. All of the requests to original .to domain are now being redirected to this new domain kickasstorrents.im. TorrentFreak reports that KAT’s domain change was not made as a result of any issues related to registry problems, rather the move was planned by KAT. KAT does so ... read more ...
 
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Stop YourLawFirm.sucks From Surfacing on the Web - Haynes and Boone has no plans to register its own name defensively with a company that’s marketing “.sucks” as a new Internet domain name suffix. Moreover, Jeff Becker, a partner in the Dallas-based firm’s home office, has rethought the advice he previously gave corporate clients to register defensively any names associated with their brands with domain-name purveyors. Why? The proliferation of what’s known as a generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs, including the “.sucks” ... read more ...
 
 
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Half a BILLION dollars later and, PHEW, we’re all done buying up dot-word … - The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four. In the past week, four other gTLDs - .map, .living, .search and .fun - has also been resolved, with two of them going to Google. Over the past year, domain-name overseer ICANN has run monthly auctions for multiple competing applications for the same name. ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds … - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...
 
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$59M and Counting: ICANN Board Downgrades Community Say on Use of Last … - ICANN's new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants are unable to reach agreement by negotiation or private auction, with the proceeds going to a segregated ICANN account. With the recent $25 million bid of Google to secure control of the .App registry the total proceeds of those ICANN auctions has swelled to $58.8 million. The final sum by the end of the first round could go higher, perhaps to more than $100 million. That's serious ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.SUCKS – what can a trademark owner do? - Owners of well-known trademarks and brand names are trying to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to block the launch of the new .SUCKS domain name. The .SUCKS domain is scheduled to join more than 1000 other new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .GURU, .WINE, .LOVE, .ADULT and .PORN. Most gTLDs were purchased from ICANN for about $200,000 each. Some popular ones were auctioned off for millions of dollars. For example, Google paid $25 ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...
 
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United States: IP Fridays – Episode 26: Interview with James Bikoff – Litigation Of … - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:06 — 15.2MB) Co-Presenters: Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan Episode 26 – April 17, 2015 RC = Rolf Claessen KS = Kenneth Suzan JB = James Bikoff In this episode we have the chance to interview James Bikoff, who is frequently litgating trademarks of the International Olympic Committee, FIFA and other large sports associations. The we also talk about a podcasting patent that was recently cancelled. And in the end, we tell you about decisions ... read more ...
 
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ECOM-LAC Chooses Sedo As Its Strategic Partner To Launch .LAT - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Creating an Internet Presence with a Latin Identity for Latinos WorldwideBoston, MA and Montevideo, Uruguay – Sedo, a global leader in the domain name space with the largest domain marketplace and monetization capabilities,  has partnered with eCOM-LAC to participate in the launch of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .LAT to provide Internet Presence with Latin Identity. eCOM-LAC selected the domain industry leader Sedo to conduct sunrise auctions, ... read more ...
 
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Effective brand enforcement in new gTLDs - 24 April 2015 More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and ... read more ...
Tue 21st April 2015
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New gTLDs Make US, UK Web Users Feel Less Secure Online: Survey - Change is scary, and that could be part of why 87 percent of consumers are uncomfortable visiting websites that use new generic top-level domains. According to a recent survey by NCC Group, 40 percent of web users in the US and UK feel less secure online since new gTLDs were introduced. NCC Group surveyed 10,000 consumers in October 2014 in collaboration with IDG Research Services. The responses are part of its “New Internet Study”, released in April. It seems that respondents’ fears aren’t ... read more ...
 
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Metrics for New gTLDs Performance - The essay describes six groups of gTLD performance indicators: (1) the presence of a secondary market; (2) uses of second-level domain names; (3) the identity of the owners of parked and not-in-use domain names; (4) domain name renewals; (5) the market size of the supporting complementary assets; and (6) the character of the person in charge of a given registry. A time-trend of these indicators would convey any price inefficiencies and bubbles, and the health of the industry. However, there ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to investigate .sucks registry over eye-watering fees - Brand owners, many of whom have registered their trade marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse to get first dibs on new gTLD domains during Sunrise Periods, are being charged a hefty premium by the '.sucks' registry. In the last year, most new domain name registries that have opened gTLDs (eg, .network, .business) have charged trade mark owners a couple of hundred dollars to apply for domains matching their trade marks during Sunrise Periods. To apply during any registry's Sunrise ... read more ...
Mon 20th April 2015
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Sorry Kids There Will Be No .Unicorn In The Domain Space But There Will Be A … - .Unicorn will remain a mythical creature when its comes to new domain names. You will not be able to register a .Unicorn domain as two domain name extension that were put into the same contention group by ICANN .Unicorn and .UNICOM have resolved with unicorn.eu withdrawing their application for .Unicorn Instead of .Unicorn we now have the less sexy .Unicom which was applied for by China United Network Communications Corporation Limited whose website is chinaunicom.com To be fair both .Unicorn and ... read more ...
Sun 19th April 2015
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.Science Still Getting Over 3K registrations A Day: Is This a Revolution or … - .Science which launched at the end of February is still adding more domain registrations a day than any other new gTLD extension by far on a daily basis Yesterday .Science added another 3K+ domain registrations as it did the day before and the day before that. Around 85% of all registrations are coming from Alpnames.com which gave away about 50K domain names for free and are currently selling .Science domain for $.49. I’ve seen other registrars selling .Science domains for a dollar. Of course ... read more ...
Sat 18th April 2015
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Having Some .Fun? Oriental.com Beats Google & .Buzz to The New gTLD .Fun - .Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate.  The company applied for .Party but did not prevail (Famous Four Media won) According to its application, the Oriental Trading Company, Inc. (OTC) plans to operate ... read more ...
 
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Right to Criticize Gets a Bigger Public Platform on the Internet with the … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, more commonly known as ICANN, has recently approved more than a thousand new general top-level domains (gTLDs), which are anticipated to launch over the next few years. Challenging the stalwart gTLDs (.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu), one of the recently approved gTLDs that will have a significant impact on trademark owners everywhere is the “.sucks” or “dotSucks” gTLD. According to promotional materials: An easy-to-locate, ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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New ".trademark" gTLD is Here - Few Brands have noticed it yet but a company has applied for a domain name extension which literally means ".trademark". The company is based in Hong-Kong and its name is "Huyi Global .商标 Domain Registry”. The ".商标" is what we call an International Domain Name extension (IDN) and it means ".trademark" in Simplified Chinese. It is pronounced: "Shang Biao". Confusion around .TRADEMARK new gTLDs In the first Round of the ICANN new gTLD program, many companies were offered to register ... read more ...
 
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Right to criticize gets a bigger public platform on the internet with the introduction … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, more commonly known as ICANN, has recently approved more than a thousand new general top-level domains (gTLDs), which are anticipated to launch over the next few years. Challenging the stalwart gTLDs (.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu), one of the recently approved gTLDs that will have a significant impact on trademark owners everywhere is the “.sucks” or “dotSucks” gTLD. According to promotional materials: An easy-to-locate, ... read more ...
 
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Dumoulin-White speaks to the ‘powerful’ anti-cancer treatment news on … - April 17, 2015 — Roger Dumoulin-White, P. Eng, President and CEO for Theralase Technologies Inc. (‘Theralase’, TSXV: TLT) speaks to Tracy Weslosky, Publisher of InvestorIntel about the recent series of news releases updating shareholders Theralase’s patented anti-cancer technology PDC (Photo Dynamic Compound) TLD-1433. Tracy Weslosky: So you just put some news out just this morning (reference, April 9, 2015) about this new anticancer Photo Dynamic Compounds TLD-1433. Is that correct? Roger ... read more ...