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Mon 23rd March 2015
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Taiwan: Domain name dispute resolution - Our weekly IP round-up includes Panasonic, Taylor Swift, Motorola, Intellectual Ventures, ATT http://t.co/bpGxNLKGq7 http://t.co/YQR35RbRve Mar 28 2015 04:25 ·  reply ·  retweet ·  favourite ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Buys Up Porn Domain Names? - Is Taylor Swift getting into the porn biz? According to CNN.com, the pop star has purchased a pair of adult domains to prevent Internet trolls and porn companies from using her name to sell XXX-rated material online. Among her purchases include Taylorswift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult. The purchase comes after a 2011 decision by ICANN to expand top-level domains, or gTLDs, such as .com and .net. The number of gTLDs have increased from 22 to to over 547. Companies and anyone else who don't want their ... read more ...
Sun 22nd March 2015
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Butterfly Twists Is Every New gTLD Operator’s Dream – Company Creates 100 … - Butterfly Twists is a shoe company based in the U.K. Steve Hall wrote a story on Marketing Land that should be of interest to those dabbling in the new gltd space. The company went out and registered 100 different new domains and created a custom website for each one. They even did a video which is basically an introduction to the new gtlds for their customers. Every registry should hope that other companies emulate Butterfly Twists.     The .com extension is celebrating its 30th anniversary this ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com - There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn’t make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name TaylorSwiftAdult.com remains unregistered today which leads me to believe it was not the Ms. Swift who registered the domain. It ... read more ...
 
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So, Taylor Swift totally bought domain names for porn sites - (Larry Busacca/Getty Images) Ever the savvy businesswoman, Taylor Swift has gone and purchased the domain names TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult. Now before you get any wrong ideas, it’s clearly in Taylor’s best interest. According to CNN Money, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has expanded its number of generic top-level domains (or gTLDs), which include the basics such as .com, .net and .org. With more repugnant domains like .porn, .adult and .sucks being added ... read more ...
Sat 21st March 2015
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IP Alert: Brand Owners Must Consider Whether to Pay Hefty Fees to Preempt … - Also facing March 31 Sunrise deadline for .ADULT and .PORN .SUCKS Make no mistake—the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) are big business. Witness Google’s purchase last month, at auction, of the .APP gTLD for $25 million. Nearly 550 new gTLDs have been delegated, with over 800 more still in the pipeline. Vox Populi Registry Ltd., which paid $3 million+ for the .SUCKS gTLD, completed its registry agreements with ICANN and announced a Sunrise Period of March 30, 2015 to May 29, 2015 ... read more ...
Fri 20th March 2015
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Trademark Watch: Nike, Qualcomm, Washington Redskins and More - On June 1st, ICANN will release .porn and .sucks. In good efforts to protect their brand many have swooped in to buy .porn and .sucks before web haters and trolls got to them. Microsoft has already registered Office.adult and Office.porn. Steve Miholovich, SVP of marketing at Safenames, a domain registrar and advisory firm for websites, commented to CNN, "At the end of the day, a TLD is really a brand." We can’t see anything positive coming from those TLD; brands may want to consider following ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Registry Audits Begin Next Week. Are You Prepared? - New Top-Level Domain (TLD) operators should be on alert next Monday 23 March when ICANN will formally notify the Registries it has selected to form part of this year's contractual compliance audit program. Clients of ARI Registry Services' recently launched Operational Services Program will have their ICANN Registry audit completed for them at no charge, enabling them to have the confidence of partnering with a proven provider of compliance services. After completing the ICANN audit ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s revenue estimate downgrade isn’t a new gTLDs disaster story - Trevor Little In its annual operating plan and budget for fiscal year 16, posted this week for public comment, ICANN has significantly reduced its estimated revenues from new gTLDs for the current fiscal year (FY). While a negative for the organisation, it shouldn’t be read as a significant statement on the gTLD programme. The draft FY16 document ... read more ...
 
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Purchase .Sucks Domain? - We are all familiar with .Com, .Edu, .Mil and .Org; however, you may have noticed that these so-called “Top Level Domain” (or TLD) name extensions have been expanding.  Soon the .Sucks, .Porn and .XXX suffixes will be available for  the general public.  At first glance this is giggle-interesting but likely deemed irrelevant by most of us; however, this may be a mistake. The .Sucks domain name is being billed as the consumer advocate’s extension and if you go to the Vox Populi Registry, ... read more ...
 
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Sex, sales and video: the latest gTLD Sunrise Periods - There are several open gTLD Sunrise Periods that may be of interest to companies in the advertising, entertainment, fashion and retail, and sports industries who wish to prevent registration of their trademark as a domain name in the new adult-related gTLDs. These same companies also may be interested in the Sunrise Periods for the .sale and .video gTLDs. As we previously reported, each new gTLD operator must provide a window during which only owners of brands registered with the ... read more ...
Thu 19th March 2015
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March 2015 News - April 13-15 Milan, Italy IATA 28th Ground Handling Conference April 26-29 Istanbul, Turkey AAAE 87th Annual Conference Expo June 7-10 Philadelphia, PA inter airport Europe October 8-11 Munich, Germany NBAA Business Aviation Conference Exposition November 17-19 Las Vegas, NV March 2015 News   BUSINESS BUZZ Air India SATS Airport Services received the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations certification for adhering to high safety standards at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Buys .FREE Domain - Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has won the rights to a new top-level domain and it is in sharp contrast to the company’s recent purchase of the ‘.buy’ top-level domain. Amazon has acquired the rights to the  ‘.free’ top-level domain. Amazon beat Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free. Amazon made a number of very general statements on the company’s application for ‘.free’, which do not shed any light on the ... read more ...
 
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Eight genuinely useful tools for domain name generation - Thinking of a name for your new website is difficult, and the longer you leave it the harder it gets. Here’s the situation I’m in… Me, my wife and few of our friends have decided to pool together our various digital skills and resources to start a new website in our spare time. We know what the content will be (stupid, rambling), we know roughly what our strategy is (hit and hope) and we know what our goals are (free beer). Planning sessions have gone well, we’ve got loads of ideas for articles, ... read more ...
 
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Restricting .doctor TLD to Physicians Unfair, Donuts Tells ICANN in … - Restricting .doctor TLD to Physicians Unfair, Donuts Tells ICANN in Reconsideration Filing By Joseph WrightMarch 16 — A newly required public interest commitment (PIC) would place the .doctor top-level domain in a unique, “ultra-highly sensitive” category in violation of ICANN's policy of nondiscrimination in the namespace, according to a reconsideration request filed by Donuts Inc. subsidiary Brice Trail March 12.The challenged ... read more ...
 
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Watch Out, Brands: The Controversial .Sucks Domain Is Almost Here - Marketing Land explains that early registration begins later this month, but brands that want to register their trademarked names before the general public can will pay a hefty price. Among the 500+ new, generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have been approved, few have generated as much concern and consternation as .sucks. Before he left office, US Senator Jay Rockefeller told ICANN — the international organization that manages the internet’s domain name system — that the domain has “little ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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No Easy Solutions to TLD Branding and Labeling - The introduction of unlimited numbers of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) has increased customer and company confusion about the role of brand names and their product labels, as noted in an earlier post. This essay outlines the various possible scenarios for coupling TLD branding and labeling, and it explains why duplicating the benefits of branding under.com may be difficult. Let's look at the benefits of having default solutions for decision making. Harvard Law Professor Cass R. Sunstein ... read more ...
 
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Chris Owen :Investing in .Sucks Could Be the Best $2500 Companies Might Ever … - It was announced this week that the sunrise period for the new top level domain (TLD) '.Sucks' will launch on March 30th, prompting marketing managers across the world to start firing off emails to their bosses to cough up the expected $2,500 needed to secure '[theirbrand].sucks'. And perhaps rightly so - short of ICANN, the outfit which controls TLDs, announcing swearword laden domain suffixes, '.sucks' has universal appeal to anyone wanting to ... read more ...
 
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Investing in .Sucks Could Be the Best $2500 Companies Might Ever Spend - It was announced this week that the sunrise period for the new top level domain (TLD) '.Sucks' will launch on March 30th, prompting marketing managers across the world to start firing off emails to their bosses to cough up the expected $2,500 needed to secure '[theirbrand].sucks'. And perhaps rightly so - short of ICANN, the outfit which controls TLDs, announcing swearword laden domain suffixes, '.sucks' has universal appeal to anyone wanting to ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball (MLB) Wins the New Domain Extension .Baseball … - In what only can be described as win for the new gTLD program, Major League Baseball (MLB) has won the rights to operate the new domain name extension .Baseball. Donuts was the only other applicant. Donuts had won many sports extensions including .football, .Hockey, .Run and .Soccer. .Baseball was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. Here is what MLB plans for the new gTLD  .Baseball according to its application with ICANN: Major League Baseball (“MLB”) is the oldest professional ... read more ...
 
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Who’s buying the new top-level domains? - In fact, the company has said that it will indeed begin operating as a registry and charging people to lease domain names under the various top-level domains that it has bought. So far it either owns, or is in the process of buying, domains including .PhD, .how, .meme and .new. But who else is buying-up top-level domain names? Amazon recently beat Google in the auction for the .buy domain, but it ended up costing them a reported $4.6m. Uniregistry bought the .mom domain and issued a statement ... read more ...
 
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Donuts unveils marketing offensive in drive to promote gTLD expansion - Trevor Little This week Donuts, the largest registry for new generic top-level (gTLD) domain names, unveiled its first advertising campaign, aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning point in terms of wider public awareness of new gTLDs, the campaign will do no harm in spreading the gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks Wins .DIY Beating Google: Now Owns 11 gTLD’s - Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. part of the Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., and Scripps Networks, LLC (“Scripps”) won the rights to operate the new domain extension .DIY beating Google who withdrew its application. The company operates the The DIY Network.com, as well as many other Television networks including the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel, HGTV and the Travel Channel. Of course DIY stands for Do It Yourself. Scripps originally applied to operate 13 new gTLD and with the exception ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google To .MBA; Google Wins .PHD - Two more new gTLD strings that were scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week, have been settled privately. Donuts won rights to operate the .MBA new domain extension, beating out Google and a company known as Your Dot Phd, Inc. Yourdotphd.com Google won the rights to operate the new gTLD, .PHD beating out Your Dot Phd, Inc. There are plenty of new gTLD’s in the education vertical including .education,  .school, and .university all owned by Donuts  and .College which is owned by ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2015
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New .sucks web domain offers new space, mischief - LOS ANGELES, March 17 (UPI) -- The Internet is about to offer more digital real estate in the latest push to open up new space for the world's ever-growing web presence. And one of them really, truly sucks. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved hundreds of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansions, and there could be nearly 1,500 new ones in ... read more ...