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Cost of Donuts’ DPML trademark protection service to soar
At least one registrar is increasing the price by 76% as new TLD company hikes price of brand protection service. Top level domain name provider Donuts will significantly increase the price of its Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) on January 1, 201...
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Cost of Donuts’ DPML trademark protection service to soar
At least one registrar is increasing the price by 76% as new TLD company hikes price of brand protection service. Top level domain name provider Donuts will significantly increase the price of its Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) on January 1, 201...
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October 27, 2016, 6:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Thick Whois is on its way to .com
Current plan is to introduce it for new domains by May 2018. ICANN has opened a comment period about the implementation of Thick Whois in existing top level domains including .com and .net. .Com and .net currently use what’s called a “Thi...
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Thick Whois is on its way to .com
Current plan is to introduce it for new domains by May 2018. ICANN has opened a comment period about the implementation of Thick Whois in existing top level domains including .com and .net. .Com and .net currently use what’s called a “Thi...
Discussion
October 27, 2016, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Auction for apartments.nyc, realestate.nyc and others ends today
.NYC auction features 20 domain names. A registry auction on NameJet featuring 20 .NYC domain names ends this afternoon. The domain names have a heavy real estate emphasis. Real estate domain names have an obvious appeal in New York City, which is kn...
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Auction for apartments.nyc, realestate.nyc and others ends today
.NYC auction features 20 domain names. A registry auction on NameJet featuring 20 .NYC domain names ends this afternoon. The domain names have a heavy real estate emphasis. Real estate domain names have an obvious appeal in New York City, which is kn...
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October 27, 2016, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN files motion to dismiss Donuts’ .Web lawsuit
ICANN says Donuts can’t sue and asks for court to dismiss case. ICANN has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) a lawsuit brought by a Donuts’-owned company over the results of an auction for .Web. Donuts was one of seven applicants for the .we...
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ICANN files motion to dismiss Donuts’ .Web lawsuit
ICANN says Donuts can’t sue and asks for court to dismiss case. ICANN has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) a lawsuit brought by a Donuts’-owned company over the results of an auction for .Web. Donuts was one of seven applicants for the .we...
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October 27, 2016, 1:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts asks judge to allow limited discovery
Company wants information and documents from Nu Dot Co and Verisign related to .web transaction. New top level domain name company Donuts has asked a judge to let it undertake limited discovery to figure out what happened between Nu Dot Co and Verisi...
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Donuts asks judge to allow limited discovery
Company wants information and documents from Nu Dot Co and Verisign related to .web transaction. New top level domain name company Donuts has asked a judge to let it undertake limited discovery to figure out what happened between Nu Dot Co and Verisi...
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October 26, 2016, 10:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts’ application for .Charity lives again
A couple of years later, Donuts is back in the game for the .charity top level domain. New top level domain name company Donuts is back in the running for the .charity top level domain name after an Independent Review Panel (IRP) found ICANN’s ...
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Donuts’ application for .Charity lives again
A couple of years later, Donuts is back in the game for the .charity top level domain. New top level domain name company Donuts is back in the running for the .charity top level domain name after an Independent Review Panel (IRP) found ICANN’s ...
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October 26, 2016, 8:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse domain name hijacking in HUG.com case
Hospital organization tried to reverse hijack valuable domain names, panel says. Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, a group of hospitals in Geneva, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain names Hug...
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Reverse domain name hijacking in HUG.com case
Hospital organization tried to reverse hijack valuable domain names, panel says. Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, a group of hospitals in Geneva, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain names Hug...
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October 26, 2016, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Something brewing at Home Instead, or just brand protection?
Company registers domain names hinting at problems with its workforce. I find it interesting when companies go on defensive domain name registration binges. Often, it foreshadows a problem at the company. Other times, it’s just someone at the c...
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Something brewing at Home Instead, or just brand protection?
Company registers domain names hinting at problems with its workforce. I find it interesting when companies go on defensive domain name registration binges. Often, it foreshadows a problem at the company. Other times, it’s just someone at the c...
Discussion
October 26, 2016, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Stocks: From -26% to +51%, here’s how they’re doing this year
Tucows, MMX and GoDaddy are enjoying great years, Endurance and Web.com…not so much. There are just a couple of months left in the year, and it has been one of ups and downs for many domain name stocks. The S&P 500 has returned about 7% th...
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Domain Stocks: From -26% to +51%, here’s how they’re doing this year
Tucows, MMX and GoDaddy are enjoying great years, Endurance and Web.com…not so much. There are just a couple of months left in the year, and it has been one of ups and downs for many domain name stocks. The S&P 500 has returned about 7% th...
Discussion
October 25, 2016, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Uniregistry just released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names
Most are available at standard registration prices, including about 1.5 million .click domains. At 1 PM EDT today, domain name registry Uniregistry released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names to its registrar channel, meaning anyone can reg...
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Uniregistry just released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names
Most are available at standard registration prices, including about 1.5 million .click domains. At 1 PM EDT today, domain name registry Uniregistry released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names to its registrar channel, meaning anyone can reg...
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October 25, 2016, 5:01 pm
