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Thu 13th November 2014
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US Court Overrules Attempt to Seize Iran’s, Syria’s and North Korea’s Domains - In a landmark ruling, a U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment and thus overruled an attempt to seize Iran's, Syria's and North Korea's domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries' governments. "We are pleased that the court ruled in our favor on the grounds that the ccTLDs are not property, subject to attachment", said John Jeffrey, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2518: .Restaurant 2389; .Gifts 1010; .Sarl … - 4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early Access Program for those willing to pay an additional amount to get early access to a domain name here are the totals after the 1st day of GA: .Melbourne 2,518 .Restaurant 2,389 .Gifts 1,010 .Sarl 176 We should note that Uniregistry launched ;Gift a while ... read more ...
 
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DC Court rules that Top-Level Domain not subject to seizure - As I mentioned several months ago, a group of plaintiffs, having obtained judgments in US courts against the government of Iran, has been seeking to satisfy those judgments via writs of attachment – court-ordered seizures – of property belonging to the Iranian government.  This can be a relatively straightforward process when applied to bank accounts, real estate, or tangible personal property – the usual targets of seizure orders.  But the plaintiffs here sought to seize the .ir top-level ... read more ...
 
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No, you can’t seize country TLDs, US court rules - In a landmark ruling that signals a win for the current system of Internet governance, a U.S. court has quashed an attempt to seize Iran’s, Syria’s and North Korea’s domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries’ governments. Four mindblowing Ted Talks for techies TED talks make that possible to do in a single sitting. Here are four talks that in just over an hour READ NOW The plaintiffs in the case wanted to seize the country’s ccTLDs (country code top-level ... read more ...
 
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Amazon’s Surprising Domain Name Move - Amazon has won the right to create domain names ending in .Pay, according to domain-tracking newsletter The Domains. The E-commerce giant, which applied for the .Pay top-level domain (TLD) rights in 2012, became the last bidder standing after Swiss company DotPay SA dropped out just days before .Pay was scheduled to be auctioned off. That means Amazon can proceed through a now-mostly-bureaucratic process of officially being assigned rights to the TLD, including signing a contract that requires ... read more ...
 
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Amazon wins Online Auction for .Book Domain – Good E - ICANN has been running a series of auctions over the course of the last year for a new series of custom domain names. Amazon has been battling it out against rival publishing and self-publishing companies in an effort to attain the lucrative .book TLD. Amazon has just won the auction despite a filing by the Association of American Publishers in 2013 that opposed its bid, and described the possible control of the .book TLD by the retailer, or by any private company, to be counter to the ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Abuse Is a 4 Letter Word - There has been a lot of back and forth recently in the ICANN world on what constitutes domain abuse; how it should be identified and reported AND how it should be addressed. On one side of the camp, we have people advocating for taking down a domain that has any hint of misbehaviour about it, and on the other side we have those that still feel Registries and Registrars have no responsibility towards a clean domain space. (Although that side of the camp is in steady decline and moving toward ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Tucows Reports & Plans Repurchase $8 Million in Shares - Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the third quarter of 2014 after the market closed. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for the third quarter of 2014 was $2.7 million, or $0.24 per share, compared with $2.6 million, or $0.24 per share, for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for both the third quarters of 2013 and 2014 included the contribution of confidential arrangements related ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Study Looks At Who Are The New G’s Affecting Most ? - Afnic.fr the registry for domain names in .fr put out a study that took a look at how is the proliferation of new gtlds affecting the existing gtld and cctlds that have been around for many years. The study broke extensions into 3 separate categories: The three main categories are: nTLDs: TLDs created since the end of 2013 and introduced to the market as of the onset of 2014; as of September 2014, there were 408 nTLDs; gTLDs or “legacy TLDs”: all 18 of them are generic TLDs created between 1985 ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wins Auction for .Book Domain - Amazon.com has won the right to operate the .book top-level domain name in a private auction, according to reports from a number of technology news sites.Amazon’s winning bid will give it the right to sell Internet domain names that end in the suffix .book. While the prices paid in private generic top-level domain (TLD) auctions are generally not revealed, Amazon is reported to have made a winning bid of about $10 million. Amazon won the right to operate the .book TLD in an auction that at ... read more ...
 
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Hotel chain obtains transfer of ‘.berlin’ domain name reproducing its mark -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation, a obvious hotel sequence has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general tip turn domain (gTLD) ‘.berlin’.

The ‘.berlin’ TLD is one of a many city TLDs launched by ICANN this…

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Tue 11th November 2014
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Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...
 
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Amazon bags control of .book and .pay domains – but NOT .cloud - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar Bookseller-turned-bazaar Amazon has beaten off competition from eight other companies, including Google and publisher Bowker, to win the right to sell domains ending in .book.It's not known how much Amazon paid since the gTLD was bought at private auction, although it is believed to have been between $5m and $10m – Amazon just paid $4.6m for dot-buy, by the way. Bowker was reportedly the last to drop out of the auction, ... read more ...
 
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.quebec geographic gTLD ready for public launch - Quebec’s new generic top level domain (gTLD) —.quebec — is scheduled for general availability November 18, 2014. The .quebec domain will be of interest to any brand owners conducting business in La belle province. The launch of the .quebec domain is part of the ongoing expansion of the Internet from only 22 gTLDs in 2013 (e.g. .com, .net) to over one thousand by the end of 2015. New gTLD registries may be classified as open, restricted or closed. Open domains are available ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on 101domain.com - This article is the first in a series where NamesCon is conducting interviews with its Exhibitors and Sponsors. NamesCon is the largest commercial domain name conference and is held every January in Las Vegas. The NamesCon 2015 dates are January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel on the famous Las Vegas strip. Today we are lucky to have Joe Alagna from 101domain.com: Q. Hi Joe! Can you tell us about your company and how long you have been there? A. We’re 101domain.com ... read more ...
 
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Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .online Auction - A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. In the past year, dozens of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) from .actor to .wtf have brought meaning to the letters after the dot for niche constituencies and content. Soon, domain registrants will have one broad, intuitive, uncluttered alternative to .com for almost any initiative online. They will also have a registry operator that ... read more ...
 
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform … - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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Terrorist attacks victims attempt to recuperate ccTLDs -

In new years, a victims of a series of militant attacks have successfully performed US sovereign justice judgments amounting to some-more than a billion dollars opposite a Iranian, Syrian and North Korean governments on a basement that these governments allegedly contributed to a appropriation of a militant acts in question. As a result, a victims have given sought to redeem certain assets…

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Sat 8th November 2014
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Donuts Beat Microsoft & Google For .Live - According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the .Live new gTLD. Earlier today we reported that three other public company’s Google, Amazon and Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) all lost the new gTLD auction for .Cloud. The Donuts application was placed under the company Half Woods, LLC So far Google has won 4 new gTLD in contention:  .Dev over Amazon;  .Docs over Microsoft,  .Drive ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Announces ChineseLandrush.com Version 3.1 - I received an email from Mitch Watkins of TLD Registry, and he wants to share that there has been a major update to their ChineseLandrush.com website. If you aren’t familiar, ChineseLandrush.com is a website that provides information about investing in Chinese domain names. It is primarily geared towards domain name investors. This update is version 3.1 of the website, and it includes a bug fix as well as additional features. According to Mitch, here’s what the update covers and how ... read more ...
 
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Shocker: Both Amazon & Google Lose New gTLD .Cloud Private Auction - A private auction was held a couple of weeks ago for the new gTLD .Cloud and shockingly neither Amazon (AMZN) or Google (GOOG), which both applied for the extension, won the auction. Amazon, Google, Donuts, Dot GLOBAL AS (cloudnames.com) and a third public company Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) have all withdrawn their applications for .Cloud The only two applicants who have not yet withdrawn their application are;  Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) and ARUBA S.p.A. which ... read more ...
 
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Newly public dot-dentist flogger Rightside’s shares jump on strong domain sales - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines In its first earnings report since going public, domain-name specialist Rightside reported revenues of $48.8m, a 7 per cent revenue increase over the year-ago quarter, causing its shares to jump by 4.5 per cent. The company is now valued at $173m.Rightside is unique in the domain name industry in that it services every level of the market and is broadly spread across each vertical. It runs 33 generic top-level ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | gTLD update: Are ICANN and the gTLD … -

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Customer Confusion over New(ish) gTLDs Targeting Financial Services - For the last decade and a bit, banking customers have been relentlessly targeted by professional phishers with a never-ending barrage of deceitful emails, malicious websites and unstoppable crimeware — each campaign seeking to relieve the victim of their online banking credentials and funds. In the battle for the high-ground, many client-side and server-side security technologies have been invented and consequently circumvented over the years. Now we're about to enter a new era of mitigation ... read more ...