Tag Archives: .shop

Thu 28th January 2016
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Can we make clarity of $41.5 million for .Shop? - GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfront cost for any top level domain name. I’m not alone. Of the seven participants in yesterday’s auction for .Shop, only two were willing to pay more than $15 million for the domain name. Clearly, GMO is in this for the long term. Any company that invests $41.5 ... read more ...
Wed 27th January 2016
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Breaking: .Shop tip turn domain sells for towering $41.5 million - $41.5 million spent for rights to a single new top level domain name. An auction to determine which company will control the .shop top level domain name has concluded with a record price of $41,501,000. GMO Registry, a Japanese domain name company, was the last bidder standing. It defeated six other bidders, including Amazon.com and Google. Only GMO Registry and one other company bid above $15 million for the name. The final bid price is sure to turn heads with the lackluster results of other new ... read more ...
Tue 16th June 2015
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Commercial Connect fails miserably in Community Priority bid - Proving a community for “shop” proves very difficult. .Shop top level domain name applicant Commercial Connect has been denied (pdf) in its bid for Community Priority, scoring just five points out the necessary 14 required to prevail. Like GMO, which also applied for community status, Commercial Connect didn’t score any points for “community establishment” and nexus. GMO got six points in its evaluation. Commercial Connect has been a harebrained mission to eliminate competition for .shop. ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2015
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GMO loses village bid for .Shop domain name - Company scores just six points in evaluation. GMO Registry has lost is Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the .Shop top level domain name. The company scored 6 points out of a possible 16 on its CPE, falling well short of the 14 required. It scored no points for Community Establishment and Nexus. It picked up a handful for registration policies because of some basic registration restrictions. It also scored some on Community Endorsement, mostly because there was no opposition. The decision is ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Oh brother, .Shop applicant has unequivocally mislaid it this time - Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be able to offer a top level domain that could in any way take away .shop’s marketshare. That’s why it filed string confusion objections against applications like .buy, .ecom, .services, and .sale. It is (rightfully) losing most of ... read more ...
Mon 9th September 2013
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Amazon.com appeals stupid IDN fibre difficulty objection - Amazon asks ICANN to ignore bad string confusion objection decision. Amazon.com has appealed to ICANN’s board to overrule a decision in a string confusion objection that placed its new TLD application for .通販 in a contention set with .shop. Panelist Robert Nau ruled that .通販, which loosely translates to “online shopping”, would cause confusion amongst internet users when compared to .shop. It was truly an awful decision, and I can understand Amazon’s ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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Hey buddy, it’s substantially too late to heading .NYC - A good way to waste $325. The guy who just recently wasted his money filing a trademark application for .music is at it again. Joseph Walker DBA ExtraWeb Ent just filed trademark applications for .nyc and .shop. New York City has already announced plans for the .nyc domain name and has selected a registry partner to bring it to market. Numerous companies want to bring .shop to market as well. Both of these applications will be summarily rejected by the U.S. Patent ... read more ...