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Are IDN .com owners about to get screwed?
Verisign finds way to sign ICANN contract, but it might come at the expense of IDN investors. It’s been a long, long wait for owners of internationalized domain names under .com. The idea was that they’d get rights to IDN.IDN-as-translite...
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Are IDN .com owners about to get screwed?
Verisign finds way to sign ICANN contract, but it might come at the expense of IDN investors. It’s been a long, long wait for owners of internationalized domain names under .com. The idea was that they’d get rights to IDN.IDN-as-translite...
Discussion
July 24, 2015, 2:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign to hike .Net prices 10%
Domain registration bills increasing. Verisign announced that it is raising its wholesale price for .net domain names in February. The current fee is $6.79, and this will jump 10% to $7.46 effective Feb. 1, 2016. Verisign is able to increase the pric...
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Verisign to hike .Net prices 10%
Domain registration bills increasing. Verisign announced that it is raising its wholesale price for .net domain names in February. The current fee is $6.79, and this will jump 10% to $7.46 effective Feb. 1, 2016. Verisign is able to increase the pric...
Discussion
July 24, 2015, 1:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Patent troll applies for domain name management patent
Intellectual Ventures wants patent related to managing domain names and web hosting. Some big companies in the domain name space have lots of patents. Despite threats, no major players have tried to extract money out of their competitors. But registr...
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Patent troll applies for domain name management patent
Intellectual Ventures wants patent related to managing domain names and web hosting. Some big companies in the domain name space have lots of patents. Despite threats, no major players have tried to extract money out of their competitors. But registr...
Discussion
July 23, 2015, 7:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
“Spa Community” gets .Spa domain name
Group wins Community Priority Evaluation for .Spa. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited has won (for now) the sole right to operate the .Spa top level domain name after winning a Community Priority Evaluation for the name. The group scored...
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“Spa Community” gets .Spa domain name
Group wins Community Priority Evaluation for .Spa. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited has won (for now) the sole right to operate the .Spa top level domain name after winning a Community Priority Evaluation for the name. The group scored...
Discussion
July 23, 2015, 3:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name registrar’s suspension stayed after it files for arbitration
OpenTLD argues it should have received a formal breach notice first. Domain name registrar OpenTLD, which had its ability to register new TLDs suspended by ICANN, is back in action for now. ICANN suspended the registrar for cybersquatting on other re...
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Domain name registrar’s suspension stayed after it files for arbitration
OpenTLD argues it should have received a formal breach notice first. Domain name registrar OpenTLD, which had its ability to register new TLDs suspended by ICANN, is back in action for now. ICANN suspended the registrar for cybersquatting on other re...
Discussion
July 23, 2015, 2:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google registers domain names for Google Play’s return to China
Domain name registrations suggest Google is indeed going back to China with Google Play. It appears that Google Play, the search giant’s app store, is indeed making another play for the Chinese market. There have been rumors about a return to C...
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Google registers domain names for Google Play’s return to China
Domain name registrations suggest Google is indeed going back to China with Google Play. It appears that Google Play, the search giant’s app store, is indeed making another play for the Chinese market. There have been rumors about a return to C...
Discussion
July 23, 2015, 2:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This Week’s Expired Domain Name Report
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain names sales, including a look at what’s happening in China after the stock bubble burst. After the Chinese stock market began its downward spiral on June 15, domain investors and brokers b...
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This Week’s Expired Domain Name Report
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain names sales, including a look at what’s happening in China after the stock bubble burst. After the Chinese stock market began its downward spiral on June 15, domain investors and brokers b...
Discussion
July 23, 2015, 1:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
John Berryhill gets stolen EHT.com domain returned through UDRP
Panel orders domain name stolen in 2013 to be returned to previous owner. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has successfully won the transfer of the domain name EHT.com for his client, in a rare case in which he acted on behalf of the complainant. ...
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John Berryhill gets stolen EHT.com domain returned through UDRP
Panel orders domain name stolen in 2013 to be returned to previous owner. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has successfully won the transfer of the domain name EHT.com for his client, in a rare case in which he acted on behalf of the complainant. ...
Discussion
July 22, 2015, 11:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
$50,000 penalty for filing a frivolous UDRP!
Company pays big bucks after filing losing UDRP. A Belgium maker of ultrasound equipment has paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a frivolous UDRP it filed. SDT International filed a UDRP for the domain named SDT.com last year. The domain n...
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$50,000 penalty for filing a frivolous UDRP!
Company pays big bucks after filing losing UDRP. A Belgium maker of ultrasound equipment has paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a frivolous UDRP it filed. SDT International filed a UDRP for the domain named SDT.com last year. The domain n...
Discussion
July 22, 2015, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy testing “Ad” designation in search results
Search results that are bumped up through marketing agreements get a new label. GoDaddy is testing the use of an “ad” designation in its domain name search results. Search results that have their locations influenced by a registry paying ...
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GoDaddy testing “Ad” designation in search results
Search results that are bumped up through marketing agreements get a new label. GoDaddy is testing the use of an “ad” designation in its domain name search results. Search results that have their locations influenced by a registry paying ...
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July 22, 2015, 4:47 pm
