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How common words like Pizza, Money, and Shopping ended up in the Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs
The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification ...
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How common words like Pizza, Money, and Shopping ended up in the Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs
The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification ...
Discussion
February 10, 2014, 8:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Yes, one letter domain names might be worth less than $1,000
Supply and demand and new TLDs…what once was scarce is no longer. Over the weekend there was quite a hubbub over at DomainInvesting.com about the availability of single letter domain names in new top level domain names. In short: they are avai...
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Yes, one letter domain names might be worth less than $1,000
Supply and demand and new TLDs…what once was scarce is no longer. Over the weekend there was quite a hubbub over at DomainInvesting.com about the availability of single letter domain names in new top level domain names. In short: they are avai...
Discussion
February 10, 2014, 6:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside Registry offers its own Domain Protected Marks List
Service for blocking trademark domain names is very similar to Donuts’. Rightside Registry announced its own version of the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) service last week. With the service, trademark owners can block their marks from bein...
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Rightside Registry offers its own Domain Protected Marks List
Service for blocking trademark domain names is very similar to Donuts’. Rightside Registry announced its own version of the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) service last week. With the service, trademark owners can block their marks from bein...
Discussion
February 10, 2014, 4:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company uses UDRP to go after dead man’s domain name
French publication files publication to try to get domain name from deceased man. Société Du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, a news publication, has lost a UDRP it filed against a dead man. The group filed the UDRP against the domain name...
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Company uses UDRP to go after dead man’s domain name
French publication files publication to try to get domain name from deceased man. Société Du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, a news publication, has lost a UDRP it filed against a dead man. The group filed the UDRP against the domain name...
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February 10, 2014, 3:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Universal Postal Union loses objections to .mail top level domain name
Group that runs .post fails to end bids for .mail top level domain name. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has lost community objections against five applications for the .mail top level domain name. UPU filed objections against all five active applic...
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Universal Postal Union loses objections to .mail top level domain name
Group that runs .post fails to end bids for .mail top level domain name. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has lost community objections against five applications for the .mail top level domain name. UPU filed objections against all five active applic...
Discussion
February 10, 2014, 3:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Microsoft, Allstate, and others bought
Big companies made domain name purchases last week. Microsoft and Allstate were among the end users that bought domain names that were reported on Sedo’s sales list last week. Here are some of the end user sales. (You can see previous end user ...
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What domain names Microsoft, Allstate, and others bought
Big companies made domain name purchases last week. Microsoft and Allstate were among the end users that bought domain names that were reported on Sedo’s sales list last week. Here are some of the end user sales. (You can see previous end user ...
Discussion
February 10, 2014, 2:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
BidPal cybersquatting lawsuit is either misleading or poorly researched. You decide.
Lawsuit falsely presumes domain owner is offering to sell the domains. And that’s just part of the problem. In December I wrote about a UDRP for BidPal.com filed by BidPal, Inc. I noted that the UDRP decision against the complainant was probabl...
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BidPal cybersquatting lawsuit is either misleading or poorly researched. You decide.
Lawsuit falsely presumes domain owner is offering to sell the domains. And that’s just part of the problem. In December I wrote about a UDRP for BidPal.com filed by BidPal, Inc. I noted that the UDRP decision against the complainant was probabl...
Discussion
February 7, 2014, 4:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign: we’re not afraid of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed
A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com i...
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Verisign: we’re not afraid of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed
A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com i...
Discussion
February 7, 2014, 3:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign reports revenue growth and 8.2 million new domain registrations in Q4
Verisign continues to grow and take in fat margins. .Com and .net domain name registry Verisign reported earnings after the bell today. Revenue for Q4 2013 was up 7% compared to the same quarter a year before, and overall 2013 revenue was up 10% comp...
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Verisign reports revenue growth and 8.2 million new domain registrations in Q4
Verisign continues to grow and take in fat margins. .Com and .net domain name registry Verisign reported earnings after the bell today. Revenue for Q4 2013 was up 7% compared to the same quarter a year before, and overall 2013 revenue was up 10% comp...
Discussion
February 6, 2014, 9:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy starts using GoDaddy.uno domain name
Domain name forward to .uno registration page. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has started using GoDaddy.uno, although perhaps not in the way the .uno registry intends for it to be used: The domain name merely forwards to GoDaddy’s .uno registrat...
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GoDaddy starts using GoDaddy.uno domain name
Domain name forward to .uno registration page. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has started using GoDaddy.uno, although perhaps not in the way the .uno registry intends for it to be used: The domain name merely forwards to GoDaddy’s .uno registrat...
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February 6, 2014, 7:18 pm
